Robin Waterfield is an internationally acclaimed scholar and author, whose publications range from academic articles to children's fiction. He has some forty books to his credit, including Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia and the End of the Golden Age, Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths and Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire.
Kathryn Waterfield is a writer specializing in Greek history. Formerly with the Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies and the Department of History at the University of South Florida, she also spent several years at the Tampa Museum of Art, working with their Greek and Roman antiquities collection.