About the Authors

Eve Lederman’s books include Shag’s Zodiac: Adventures in Astrology and Shag’s Little Book of Love: Dating, Mating and Mischief Making (www.amazon.com). Her business books include How to Get a Job in New York and Careers in Advertising. She has discussed her work on Good Day NY and WCBS radio and has lectured at bookstores as well as universities.

After graduating from Cornell, Eve’s eclectic background included undercover sleuthing with several detective agencies and a volunteer stint in Fiji. She currently owns and operates the Manhattan Proofreaders School, providing individual instruction and corporate training. Eve and Faye recently co-produced and directed A Good Uplift, a short documentary about a bra shop on the Lower East Side. The film premiered on the PBS series Reel New York in July 2004 and was watched by more than 113,000 viewers. It has also screened at more than 25 film festivals around the country including the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and Lincoln Center’s New York Jewish Film Festival.

Faye Lederman graduated from Northwestern University where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She holds an MJ in documentary film from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and is currently studying at NYU. Faye produced an independent documentary film, Women of the Wall, which screened at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Natural History, and has been shown at more than 50 universities.