Eddie Shapiro is the author of Noth­ing Like a Dame: Con­ver­sa­tions with the Great Women of Musi­cal The­ater, A Won­der­ful Guy: Con­ver­sa­tions with the Great Men of Musi­cal The­ater, and hun­dreds of arti­cles in mag­a­zines with much short­er and more sen­si­ble titles than his books. He lives in New York City and Los Angeles.