Bill Pronzini is one of America’s finest mystery/suspense writers, as well as one of its leading critics. He has published more than 30 novels and 280 stories. His fiction has been translated into 17 languages and he has edited or coedited some 40 anthologies, including, with Martin H. Greenberg, Baker’s Dozen: 13 Short Mystery Novels; A Treasury of World War II Stories; and A Treasury of Civil War Stories. A longtime resident of San Francisco, he possesses one of the world’s larger collections of pulp magazines.
Martin H. Greenberg, who has been called “The king of the anthologists,” now has some 125 of them to his credit. In addition to the books he has edited with Bill Pronzini, Greenberg has been a joint editor on A Treasury of American Horror Stories and 101 Science Fiction Stories. Greenberg is Professor of Regional Analysis and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, where he teaches a course in American foreign and defense policy.