The Gate

Nastume Soseki (1867-1916) was a Japanese writer and author of I Am a Cat, Botchan, Kusamakura, The Miner, and Kokoro.

Cindy Kay is a Chinese-Thai-American narrator and educator who grew up in the California Bay Area and lives in the Rockies. Her work has been described as listening to a "cozy best friend." She narrates fiction and nonfiction, and has studied Spanish, Portuguese, Thai, and Japanese.

Pico Iyer is the author of several books, including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, The Global Soul, and The Man Within My Head. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and Harper's. He lives in Japan.

William F. Sibley (1941-2009) was a professor of East Asian languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago. A translator of Japanese fiction and nonfiction, Sibley was at work on Soseki's First Trilogy, comprising Sanshiro, And Then, and The Gate, at the time of his death.