Daniel Handler is the author of the novels We Are Pirates, The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth, Adverbs, and Why We Broke Up, a 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book.

As Lemony Snicket, he is responsible for many books for children, including the thirteen-volume sequence A Series of Unfortunate Events and the four-book series All the Wrong Questions.

He is married to the illustrator Lisa Brown, and lives with her and their son in San Francisco.

Maira Kalman was born in Tel Aviv and moved to New York with her family at the age of four. She now lives in Manhattan. Maira has written and illustrated numerous books, including Cake, And the Pursuit of Happiness and The Principles of Uncertainty.

She is the illustrator of Michael Pollan's Food Rules and the bestselling edition of William Strunk and E. B. White's The Elements of Style. Kalman's work is shown at the Julie Saul Gallery in Manhattan.

Sarah Hermanson Meister is Curator in the Robert B. Menschel Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Recent exhibitions include Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures (2020), Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction (2017, with Starr Figura), and One and One is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers (2016). Her recent publications include Frances Benjamin Johnston: The Hampton Album(2019), Dorothea Lange: Migrant Mother (2018), Arbus Friedlander Winogrand: New Documents, 1967 (2017), and she was co-editor of and contributing author to the three-volume series Photography at MoMA (2015-2017). She is co-director of the August Sander Project (a five-year research initiative with Columbia University), and lead instructor for the online course Seeing Through Photographs on Coursera.