Eva Figes is the author of over a dozen novels as well as written works on literary criticism, feminism, and memoirs. Born in Berlin in 1932, Figes was a Jewish refugee from Hitler's Germany before her family relocated to the UK in 1939. In the 1960s she was inducted into an informal group of experimental British writers influenced by Rayner Heppenstall that included Stefan Themerson, Ann Quin, and its informal leader, B. S. Johnson.

Susan Faludi is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, which won the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A contributing editor for Newsweek and a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, she has written for many magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Esquire, Double Take, and The Nation. She lives in Los Angeles.