If the asker means The World Book Encyclopedia then goto this website for more details: http://www.worldbook.com/ I suppose there are many authors/official contributors to the World Book. To my mind, no one 'expert' can claim to be highly knowledgeable in many areas/fields of knowledge.
No, Dorothy Straight is not the author of The World Book Encyclopedia. The World Book Encyclopedia is a general reference work published by World Book, Inc. and written and edited by a team of contributors.
The Bible is the most published book in the world.
M.S.Swaminathan is the author of the book 'To A Hunger Free World'?
Daniel Kehlmann is the author of the novel "Measuring the World".
Robin Knox-Johnston is the author of A World of My Own
Speechley
There are hundreds of authors of the 2006 World Book Encyclopedia. Each article in every volume is written by an individual author.
V.S. Naipaul
The author of the book A Matter of Honour is Jeffrey Archer.
There is no one author. It is written by a number of people.
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Caroline McSherry