Ferber, Edna: - Edna Ferber (1885-1968) was a bestselling American novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Many of her books were adapted into major motion pictures as well as Broadway plays and musicals. A proud Jewish American, she was a member of the Algonquin Round Table in New York City. Most of her works feature strong female protagonists and are noteworthy for their sensitivity to racial and ethnic discrimination of her time.

Baer, Ulrich: - Ulrich Baer earned a B.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Yale. He is University Professor at New York University, and has been awarded Guggenheim, Getty, and Alexander von Humboldt fellowships. He has published numerous books on poetry, photography and cultural politics. He is the host of the podcast "Think About It." For Warbler Press he has written new introductions for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper (with nine additional stories by women writers), and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway.