Arthur Phillips has been a child actor, a jazz musician, a speechwriter, a dismally
failed entrepreneur, and a five-time Jeopardy! champion. His first
novel, Prague, a national bestseller, was named a New York Times
Notable Book, and received The Los Angeles Times/Art Seidenbaum Award
for best first novel. His second novel, The Egyptologist, was a
national and international bestseller, and was on more than a dozen
"Best of 2004" lists. Angelica, his third novel, was a national
bestseller and made The Washington Post best fiction of 2007. His work
has been translated into twenty-five languages. The Song Is You is his
highly anticipated fourth novel. He lives in New York with his wife and
two sons.
Julie Klam grew up in Bedford, NY. She has been a freelance writer since 1991,
writing for such publications as “O, The Oprah Magazine,” “Rolling
Stone,” “Harper’s Bazaar,” “Cookie,” “Allure,” “Glamour,” and “The
New York Times Magazine” and her essay, “I’m Not Fat, I’m Pregnant” is
including in the Harper Collins book The Organic Pregnancy. A graduate
of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Julie worked from 1999 – 2002 as
writer for VH1’s Pop-Up Video, where she earned an Emmy nomination for
Special Class Writing. She was also a Senior Writer on VH1’s Name That
Video. Please Excuse My Daughter, her memoir, will be available in
paperback August 7, 2009.
She lives in Manhattan with her husband, daughter and 4 dogs.
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