An original Saturday Night Live writer, Alan Zweibel has won multiple Emmy and Writers Guild of America Awards for his work in television, which also includes It's Garry Shandling's Show, Late Show With David Letterman, and Curb Your Enthusiasm. In the theater he collaborated with Billy Crystal on the Tony Award-winning play 700 Sundays, wrote the off-Broadway play Bunny Bunny: Gilda Radner: A Sort of Romantic Comedy which he adapted from his book, and his novel The Other Shulman won the 2006 Thurber Prize for American Humor.
Adam Mansbach is the author if the instant New York Times bestsellers Go the **** to Sleep and You Have to ******* Eat, as well as the novels Rage is Back, The Dead Run, Angry Black White Boy, and The End of the Jews, winner of the California Book Award. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times Book Review, Esquire, the Believer, and on National Public Radio's All Things Considered.
Together, Adam and Alan are also the authors of the first book in this series, Benjamin Franklin: Huge Pain in My . . .