George C. Scott (1927 1999), narrator of the United States at War series, was an award-winning American stage and film actor, director, and producer and an ardent student of history.

William Peter Blatty is best known for his mega-bestselling novel "The Exorcist". Blatty also cowrote the screenplay of the hilarious Inspector Clouseau film, "A Shot in the Dark. "Known for his early comic novels, the "New York Times "proclaimed that "nobody can write funnier lines than William Peter Blatty," describing him as "a gifted virtuoso who writes like S. J. Perelman." Blatty lives with his wife and a son in Maryland.