Kevin C. Fitzpatrick is founder and president of the Dorothy Parker Society, the author of A Journey into Dorothy Parker’s New York, which Publishers Weekly called “meticulously researched … eye-opening,” and the coeditor of The Lost Algonquin Round Table. He frequently speaks at libraries, salons, and private clubs, and in his spare time he enjoys dedicating bronze plaques for dead people. He and his family divide their time between the Upper West Side and Shelter Island, New York.
Allen Katz is cofounder and vice president of the New York Distilling Company, which makes Dorothy Parker American Gin. The director of spirits education and mixology for Southern Wine & Spirits of New York, he hosts The Cocktail Hour, a weekly program on Martha Stewart’s SiriusXM channel. He and his family live in New York City.