Garth Stein is an American author and film producer from Seattle, Washington.

Stein earned a B.A. in 1987 from Columbia College of Columbia University and later received a Master of Fine Arts degree in film from the University's School of the Arts.

Stein has worked as a director, producer and/or writer of documentary films, several of which won awards. In 1991, he co-produced an Academy Award winning short film, The Lunch Date. He then co-produced The Last Party, a film commentating on the 1992 Democratic National Convention. Stein also produced and directed a documentary about his sister's brain surgery, entitled When Your Head's Not a Head, It's a Nut.

In addition to his films, Stein took up creative writing. At one time, he taught creative writing at Tacoma School of the Arts. He has also published three books and one play, Brother Jones, which was produced in Los Angeles, California in 2005. His first published novel was Raven Stole the Moon (Pocket, 1998). His second novel, How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets (Soho Press, 2005), was selected as a BookSense Pick and won a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award.

Jodi Lynn Picoult ( /ˈdʒoʊdi piːˈkoʊ/) (born May 19, 1966) is an American author. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. Picoult currently has some 14 million copies of her books in print worldwide.

Picoult was born and raised in Nesconset on Long Island; her family moved to New Hampshire when she was 13 years old. She has described her family as "non-practicing Jewish". Picoult wrote her first story at age 5, entitled "The Lobster Which Misunderstood".

She studied writing at Princeton University, and graduated in 1987. She published two short stories in Seventeen magazine while still in college. Immediately after graduation, she began a variety of jobs, ranging from editing textbooks to teaching eighth-grade English. She earned a master's degree in education from Harvard University.

Picoult became the writer of DC Comics' Wonder Woman (vol. 3) series following the departure of fellow writer Allan Heinberg. Her first issue (#6) was released on March 28, 2007, and her last was issue #10 (released on June 27, 2007).