Are Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Jonathan Kellerman both authors?
Jonathan Kellerman Jonathan Kellerman (born August 9, 1949) is an American psychologist, and Edgar and Anthony Award-winning author of numerous bestselling suspense novels.
Valerie Mason-John Valerie Mason-John (born 22 November 1962) is the co-founder of "Eight Step Recovery - Using The Buddha’s Teaching to Overcome Addiction", an alternative to the 12 steps programs for addiction. Since the publication of the book by Windhorse Publications in 2013, it has won the Best USA Book awards 2014 and Best International book Award 2015 in the self motivational and self help category. Eight Step Meetings are now taking place in the UK, USA, Canada, India and Finland. She also is the co-creator of Mindfulness Based Addiction Recovery (MBAR), which was inspired by "Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression" book by John D. Teasdale, Mark Williams, and Zindal Seagal. She is author of eight books and works as a public speaker in Mindfulness for Addiction and Emotional Well Being and is a trainer in anti-bullying and conflict resolution. She is also the chairperson of Triratna Vancouver Buddhist Centre. Her Buddhist name is Vimalasara which means she whose essence is stainless and pure. She used to be a freelance feature writer for the "Voice" Newspaper and was also a performer and spoken word poet using the stage name "Queenie". Black British by birth, she has now become a Canadian.