Brian Woolley was born in Texas in 1937 and grew up in Fort Davis, a small mountain town west of the Pecos. He is the author of three novels (SOME SWEET DAY, Time and Place, November 22) and an account of a Kentucky coal strike (We Be Here When the Morning Comes). He has worked on many newspapers and is currently editor of the book review section of The Dallas Times Herald.

FRED ERISMAN holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota and taught for thirty-five years at Texas Christian University. He held the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair of Aerospace History at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, during the 2002-2003 year.

A specialist in American popular literature and culture, he has published numerous studies of science fiction, technological fiction, detective and suspense fiction, and the western. Erisman is the author of "Boys' Books, Boys' Dreams, and the Mystique of Flight". He lives in Fort Worth.