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When Globe Books launched the 50 greatest feature last January, we promised to reveal the identities of our distinguished international panel (Books editor Martin Levin completed the quintet). Here they are:

Charlotte Gray is the author of seven non-fiction, bestselling histories and biographies (of Nellie McClung, Alexander Graham Bell, E. Pauline Johnson, a.k.a. Tekahionwake, and Isabel Mackenzie King, among others). She has been a judge on numerous awards for fiction, non-fiction and biography, including the Giller Prize and the Charles Taylor Award. Born and educated in England, she lives in Ottawa.

André Alexis is a novelist, critic, playwright and broadcaster. His most recent novel, Asylum, was one of last year's Globe 100 books. His previous novel, Childhood, was short-listed for the 1998 Giller Prize. he is also the author of a children's novel, Ingrid and the Wolf, has been a radio host (most recently of Skylarking on CBC-Radio) and is a Globe and Mail contributing reviewer.

A. L. Kennedy is the Scottish author of 11 books, comprising novels (including Everything You Need and Day), short stories and non-fiction (On Bullfighting). She has won many awards, including the Costa Prize and a Lannan Foundation Award and has twice been included in the list Best Young British Novelists list. She is now too old to qualify – for many things, lists among them. She also performs as a stand-up comedian.

Alberto Manguel is the multi-lauded Canadian Argentine-born writer, translator and anthologist. His books include A History of Reading, The Library at Night, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography and the novel News From a Foreign Country Came. One of the world's leading promoters of reading, Manguel, who now lives in France, has edited a number of literary anthologies on themes from erotica and Christmas to fantastic literature and mysteries.