Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady

Anita Loos (1888-1981) was an American screenwriter, author, and playwright who became the first-ever woman to become a scriptwriter in Hollywood. Best known for her novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, she went on to write the 1951 Broadway adaptation of Gigi.

Jenny McPhee is the author of The Center of Things, a novel, and the coauthor of Girls: Ordinary Girls and Their Extraordinary Pursuits. She is the translator of Paolo Maurensig's Canone Inverso and of Crossing the Threshold of Hope by Pope John Paul II. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Glimmer Train, Zoetrope, and Brooklyn Review, and her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, and Bookforum, among others. She is on the board of the Bronx Academy of Letters.