Stella Dorothea Gibbons (1902-1989) was born in London. A novelist, poet and short-story writer, her first novel,
Cold Comfort Farm, won the Femina Vie Heuruse Prize for 1933. Amongst her other novels are
Miss Linsey and Pa,
Nightingale Wood,
Westwood,
Conference at Cold Comfort Farm, and
Beside the Pearly Water (1954).
Lynne Truss is a writer and journalist. She is the author of the number one bestseller,
Eats, Shoots & Leaves, which has sold more than two million copies, won the national British Book Award, and was on the
New York Times bestseller list or forty-five weeks. She lives in Brighton, England.
Roz Chast is a regular cartoonist for
The New Yorker, and her work has also appeared in
Redbook,
Scientific American,
Fast Company, and the
Harvard Business Review. Her memoir,
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, was a finalist for the National Book Award.