Dan Gutman is the author of many books for children, including the My Weird School series, the Flashback Four series, and the New York Times bestselling Genius Files series.

Thanks to his many fans who voted in their classrooms, he has received nineteen state book awards and ninety-two state book award nominations. Dan lives in New York, NY, with his wife, Nina.

Jim Paillot lives in Arizona (another weird place) with his weird wife and two weird children.