Rebecca Stead is the New York Times-bestselling author of When You Reach Me, Liar & Spy, First Light, Goodbye Stranger, and The List of Things That Will Not Change. Her books have been awarded the Newbery Medal, the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award for Fiction, and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Rebecca lives in New York City, where she is always on the lookout for her next story idea.
Wendy Mass is the New York Times-bestselling author of the Willow Falls and Candymakers series and thirty more novels. Her first was the Schneider Family Book Award winner A Mango-Shaped Space and her latest is Lo and Behold. . She and her family live in New Jersey.
Together Rebecca and Wendy wrote Bob, which took them seven years but they loved every minute of it.