About the Authors

Steven J. Simmons has been a professor of law and government, a White House aide on domestic policy, and a leader in the cable industry. He is a graduate of Cornell University and Harvard Law School. Steven has taught constitutional law and a course on Congress at the University of California. His writings have been published in Columbia Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and the Harvard Journal of Legislation.

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Steven is the author of the best-selling children's book, Alice and Greta: A Tale of Two Witches. He was inspired to write the story while playing with his children on a hill behind his home. In an interview on The Today Show, Steven said that he felt a "spontaneous combustion" as the story took shape in his mind. He visits schools and reads his stories to many classroom full of eager listeners.

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Steven is also the author of Jasper: The Fish Who Saved a Marriage (Charlesbridge, 1998; o.p.) and Percy to the Rescue (Charlesbridge, 1998; o.p.). In addition to his successful children's stories, he has also written The Fairness Doctrine and the Media (University of California Press).