Contributors
Barry & Pearson
Dave Barry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist whose column appears in more than five hundred newspapers in the USA and abroad. He is the author of more than twenty books, including "Boogers Are My Beat", "Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys" and "Big Trouble", several of which have been adapted for cinema and TV. Ridley Pearson is a bestselling crime novelist whose work includes "The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer", "The First Victim" and "Parallel Lies". In 1991 he was the first American to be awarded the Raymond Chandler/Fulbright Fellowship in Detective Fiction at Oxford University. Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson are longtime friends, but "Peter and the Starcatchers" is their first writing collaboration and their first foray into children's literature. The inspiration for the Peter Pan sequel came when Ridley's daughter asked him how Peter and Captain Hook met. "Immediately I knew what I was going to write next," says Ridley, who asked Dave if he wanted to collaborate. Dave and Ridley not only write together, they also play together in a band. Dave plays lead guitar and Ridley plays bass guitar in the literary all-star garage band, the Rock Bottom Remainders.
