Ann Batko is a business communications expert and a former Executive Editor of Rand McNally & Company. During her 20-year career, she has trained advertising, marketing, and publishing executives in effective writing and presentation skills. She lives in the Chicago area with her daughter, whom she is currently instructing on the proper uses of the subjunctive mood.

Edward Rosenheim is the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor Emeritus in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago, where he taught for 42 years. Dr. Rosenheim is a Jonathan Swift scholar and has written a number of important books, articles, and reviews on this subject. For 20 years he was the editor of the prestigious journal Modern Philology.