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Jon Racherbaumer is an American magician, writer, editor, and historian whose work focuses especially on card magic and its practitioners. He has written and edited books, manuscripts, periodicals, and instructional material documenting sleights, routines, and the development of modern close-up magi...
David Ben is a Canadian magician, author, producer, and historian of magic. He is known for performing sleight-of-hand magic and for writing major biographical studies of influential Canadian-born magician Dai Vernon, including The Professor and its companion volume, The Vernon Touch. Ben has also w...
Milbourne Christopher (1914-1984) was an American stage magician, collector, and historian of conjuring. He performed illusions internationally and wrote extensively about magicians, deceptive practices, and the history of the craft, including The Illustrated History of Magic. His books combine biog...
Tom Sito is an American animator, author, and animation historian who worked at Walt Disney Feature Animation during the studio's late-20th-century period known as the Disney Renaissance. His Disney film credits include The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and The...
John Canemaker is an American independent animator and film historian who won the 2005 Academy Award for Best Animated Short for The Moon and the Son.
