Anne-Marie O’Connor is an American journalist and writer who wrote "The Lady in Gold," the bestselling story of the battle by Vienna émigré Maria Altmann to reclaim five Gustav Klimt paintings from her native Austria in an eight-year legal battle, a saga that also inspired a Harvey Weinstein movie, Woman in Gold, in which Helen Mirren played Maria Altmann.
Ora Ahimeir is a Jerusalem-born former diplomat and a founder and former director of the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies. Her novel "Bride" was awarded the 2014 Israel Book Publishers Association’s Gold Prize.