Jean Stein (Author) Jean Stein's father, Jules, founded MCA and she grew up in the golden years of Hollywood. At Jean's coming-out party, Judy Garland sang 'Over the Rainbow'; later she had an affair with William Faulkner, became an editor at The Paris Review , and was Elia Kazan's assistant on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof . Immersed in the demi-monde of New York, she was close to Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground, and to Warhol's muse - Edie Sedgewick - about whom Lou Reed wrote 'Femme Fatale' and Jean Stein wrote Edie (1982). That book became an international best-seller, of which Norman Mailer wrote- 'This is the book of the Sixties that we have been waiting for . ' George Plimpton (Author) George Plimpton (1927-2003) was the bestselling author and editor of nearly thirty books, as well as the cofounder, publisher, and editor of the Paris Review . He wrote regularly for such magazines as Sports Illustrated and Esquire , and he appeared numerous times in films and on television. Ottessa Moshfegh (Introducer) Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen , her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction.

My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Death in Her Hands , her second and third novels, were New York Times bestsell-ers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World and a novella, McGlue . She lives in Southern California.