Diana Muir Appelbaum is an award-winning author and historian. Her Reflections in Bullough’s Pond received the Massachusetts Book Award as the best non-fiction book of 2000 and has been adopted by several college courses as a standard text on the interplay between man and nature. Although her books are written for a general audience, her work in the social history of Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July is considered foundational in the study of human celebration. Muir also has written a pair of children’s books on the Maine woods and the ice trade, which have delighted a generation of New England schoolchildren. Yankee Magazine named her first, Giants in the Land, one of the 40 greatest children’s books of all time. She is a graduate of Barnard College.

Paul S. Appelbaum, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Division of Psychiatry, Law, and Ethics, Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. He is the author of many articles and books on law and ethics in clinical practice, including four that were awarded the Manfred S. Guttmacher Award from the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. Dr. Appelbaum is Past President of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, and the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society. He is currently a member of the MacArthur Foundation Network on Mandatory Outpatient Treatment. He has received the Isaac Ray Award of the American Psychiatric Association for “outstanding contributions to forensic psychiatry and the psychiatric aspects of jurisprudence,” was the Fritz Redlich Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Appelbaum is a graduate of Columbia College and received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School.

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