Book contributors

About the Contributors

Shaun Assael ("Like Bogey and Bacall") is the author of the New York Times bestselling Sex, Lies and Headlocks: The Real Story of Vince McMahon and a forthcoming history of steroids in America.

Eric Bartels ("The Least We Could Do") is a feature writer for the Portland Tribune newspaper in Portland, Oregon. His essay, "My Problem With Her Anger" appeared in the collection The Bastard on the Couch.

Patricia Berry ("Unwanted Hair Growth") is a freelance writer and a founding editor of Sports Illustrated For Kids. Her work has appeared in This Old House, The New York Times, Working Mother, Fortune Small Business, and New Jersey Monthly.

Anne Burt ("Love Child") is the editor of the essay collection My Father Married Your Mother: Writes Talk About Stepparents, Stepchildren, and Everyone in Between. Her writing has appeared in Salon, The Christian Science Monitor, Parenting, and Working Mother.

Deborah Caldwell ("Woman on a Mission") is the managing editor of Beliefnet.com. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Week in Review and Slate; along with the collections Perspectives on the Passion of the Christ and The Imperfect Mom: Candid Confessions of Mothers Living in the Real World.

Susan Cheever ("The Joy of Not Giving a Damn") is the author of twelve books. Her latest, American Bloomsbury, is a group biography of Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Louisa May Alcott. She teaches in the Bennington College Writing Seminars and at The New School.

Michael Corcoran ("Better Late Than Never") is the deputy editor Golf magazine and the author of eight books, including The Game of the Century, For Which It Stands, and Duel in the Sun. He has written for such publications as The Scotsman, Philadelphia Magazine, Outside, Men's Health, and Golf Magazine.

Susan Crandell ("What's Sex Got to Do With It?") is the author of Thinking About Tomorrow: Reinventing Yourself at Midlife and the former editor-in-chief of More magazine, She has written for such magazines as Town & Country, More, Travel & Leisure, Prevention, Ladies' Home Journal, Gourmet, and Reader's Digest.

Alice Elliott Dark ("The Good Enough Affair") is the author of the novel, Think of England, and two short-story collections, In The Gloaming and Naked to the Waist. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Redbook, Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, Best American Short Stories of the Century.

Lian Dolan ("Too Much Information") is the co-host of the nationally syndicated radio show Satellite Sisters and senior editor of the book, Satellite Sisters' Uncommon Senses. She writes a column in Working Mother magazine called "The Chaos Chronicles," and has written for such magazines as O: The Oprah Magazine and Good Housekeeping.

Marek Fuchs ("The Unkind Cut") is a writer for The New York Times. He also writes The Business Press Maven column for TheStreet.com.

Ann Hood (" 'Til Faith Do Us Part") is the bestselling author of ten books, including a memoir, a short-story collection, and the novels The Knitting Circle, Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine, and Ruby. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Glimmer Train, Double Take, The Missouri Review, The Washington Post, and Bon Appetite.

Adair Lara ("The Man Upstairs") is a columnist, author, magazine writer, and the author of a memoir called Hold Me Close, Let Me Go. She is also the founder of a new website for meeting other writers called Matchwriters.com.

Caroline Leavitt ("Sex After Near Death") is the author of eight novels, most recently Girls in Trouble. The recipient of a New York Foundation of the Arts Award, a National Magazine Award Nominee, and a Nickelodeon Screenwriting Fellowship Finalist, she recently won a Goldenberg Literary Honorable Mention Prize for her novel in progress.

Sarah Mahoney ("Me Talk Dirty One Day") is a contributing editor for Parents and Prevention. Her work has appeared in such publications as Woman's Day, Better Homes & Gardens, Reader's Digest, and The New York Times. She was editor of Ladies' Home Journal, editor-in-chief of Fitness, and executive editor of Parents.

Joyce Maynard ("Wrinkles in Time") has published five novels and two volumes of memoir, including the best-selling At Home in the World. Her latest book is Internal Combustion: The True Story of A Marriage and a Murder in Motor City. A reporter with The New York Times, a syndicated columnist, and magazine writer, she also has been a commentator on Nation Public Radio's All Things Considered.

Kate Meyers ("Man vs. Machine") is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Life, InStyle, Sports Illustrated, Golf, Golf Digest, and Golf for Women. She was an editor at Travel & Leisure Golf and a staff writer at Entertainment Weekly.

Jacquelyn Mitchard ("Sex and the Younger Man") is the author of the number one New York Times bestselling novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, and five other novels, including the most recent, The Breakdown Lane. She has also written an essay collection and five books for children and young adults. Her syndicated column appears nationwide, and she is a contributing editor for Parenting, and Wondertime.

Steven Rinehart ("Pretty Young Things") is the author of the story collection Kick in the Head and the novel Built in a Day. His stories have been published in a variety of magazines, including Harper's, GQ, Story, and Ploughshares.

Crispin Sartwell ("Sophocles, Buddha, Marion, and Me") is associate professor of political science at Dickinson College. His commentaries have appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, and The Washington Post. His weekly op-ed columns are syndicated by Creators, and his essays have appeared in Harper's and on National Public Radio.

Helene Stapinski ("Like a Buncha Virgins") is the author of the best-selling memoir Five Finger Discount, A Crooked Family History and Baby Plays Around: A Love Affair, With Music. She has written for The New York Times, New York magazine, and Billboard, Columbia Journalism Review, Salon, Real Simple, and Food & Wine.

Cameron Stracher ("Leaving Las Vegas") is the author of a memoir, Double Billing: A Young Lawyer's Tale of Greed, Sex, Lies and the Pursuit of a Swivel Chair and a novel, The Laws of Return, for which he won a fiction fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He is the publisher of the New York Law School Law Review.

Stephan Wilkinson ("Mechanical Failure") is the automotive correspondent of Conde Nast Traveler Magazine, consulting auto editor of Popular Science, and a frequent contributor to Golf Connoisseur and forbesautos.com. He also is the author of Man and Machine: the Best of Stephan Wilkinson and the memoir The Gold-Plated Porsche: How I Spent a Small Fortune on a Used Car, and Other Misadventures.

Marion Winik, ("Love and Bad Language"), a commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, is the author of Above Us Only Sky, Telling, First Comes Love, and The Lunch-Box Chronicles, among others. She has written for such magazines as O, Salon, Travel+Leisure, National Geographic Traveler, Texas Monthly, Men's Journal, Reader's Digest, and Redbook, along with many newspapers, websites and anthologies.