André Fontaine spent more than thirty years on news-papers and magazines in New York, as city editor of Newsday, associate editor of Collier’ s, editor of Bluebook, and senior editor of Redbook. For more than a decade he worked as a freelance writer, publishing in major national magazines from Reader’ s Digest to Yachting. He is professor emeritus at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
William A. Glavin, Jr. , is an associate professor of magazine journalism at the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. He has worked as a newspaper reporter, television news editor, and for four years as an associate editor at Good Housekeeping magazine.