For Beginners is a 25-book series with 25 released primary works first released in 1982 with contributions by James N. Powell, Denise Dennis, Zoran Josipovic, Judith Blackstone, Robert J. Cavalier, Richard Osborne, Lydia Alix Fillingham, Moshe Susser, Saundra Pearl Sharp, Ron David, Eric LeMay, Jennifer A. Pitts, P. Gordon, Sam E. Anderson, Donald D. Palmer, David Cogswell, Philip Hill, Carlos Polimeni, Marcos Mayer, Jeff Becan, W. Terrence Gordon, and Steven L. Manly.