ELLIS WEINER has been an editor of National Lampoon, a columnist for Spy, and a contributor to many magazines, including The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Mademoiselle, and the Paris Review. His recent books include a novel, Drop Dead, My Lovely (NAL, March 2004), and The Joy of Worry, with illustrations by Roz Chast (Chronicle, June 2004). He lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
BARBARA DAVILMAN began her career in New York in advertising, created and ran her own greeting card company (which was featured in People magazine and on the Today show), and was then summoned to Los Angeles to write for sitcoms that, thankfully, no one remembers.
GABI PAYN, illustrator of Yiddish with Dick and Jane, has worked in television animation for many years and lives in Los Angeles.