A three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, Carl Hiaasen has written over 1300 pieces for The Miami Herald exposing land corruption scams, drug smuggling rings, dangerous doctors, and corrupt politicians. Carl Hiaasen is perhaps best known as the author of twelve novels, including the best-selling Sick Puppy and Skinny Dip and two novels for young readers, Flush and Hoot, which was awarded a Newberry Honor.

The New York Times has compared him to Preston Sturges, Woody Allen, and S.J. Perelman, and The London Observer calls him "America's fines tsatirical novelist."

Chris Dufresne is a 1981 graduate of Cal State Fullerton and is staggering into his 27th year as an award-winning sportswriter for the Los Angeles Times. He is presently the paper's national college football columnist but continues to report on a variety of topics ranging from Olympic alpine skiing to U.S. Open golf. Once, when Los Angeles actually supported professional football, he covered the Rams, Raiders and the short-lived and ill-advised Express of the now (and forever) defunct US Football League. He lives in Chino Hills and has been married to wife Sheila for 22 years. They have three boys--Danny, Drew and Joey.