Andrew Blauner is a lit­er­ary agent and the edi­tor of eight pre­vi­ous antholo­gies, includ­ing Now Comes Good Sail­ing: Writ­ers Reflect on Hen­ry David Thore­au, Coach: 25 Writ­ers Reflect on Peo­ple Who Made a Dif­fer­ence, and The Peanuts Papers: Writ­ers and Car­toon­ists on Char­lie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Mean­ing of Life. He is a mem­ber of PEN Amer­i­ca and appeared in The New York Times, NPR, and oth­er media outlets.