The Authors James Andrew Miller Photo: Victoria Will James Andrew Miller served as Special Assistant and Chief Speechwriter to Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, Jr. His first book, "Running in Place: Inside the Senate," a well-reviewed bestseller (Simon and Schuster, 1986), was based partly on his experiences in the Majority Leader's office. He began his television career as a producer at CBS News in 1984, and in 1988 became Vice-President of the television division at Norman Lear's ACT III Communications. Miller also served as executive producer for several Lear television series and numerous others, including Dick Wolf's "D.C." In film, Miller has written or rewritten screenplays for Sony, Warner Bros., Universal, Disney, Fox, New Line, Paramount and HBO. In 1999, Miller became Executive Vice-President for USA Cable, where he oversaw the scripted series, TV-movie and reality divisions. As head of original programming, one of Miller's first acquisitions was the pilot script for the acclaimed series "Monk." Miller also oversaw the development of a reality series with Mark Burnett and the production of more than a dozen movies for television. In 2003, Miller was hired by CNN and served as the first Senior Executive Producer for both the breakthrough series "Anderson Cooper 360" and for "Paula Zahn Now." Miller also co-authored "Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live" (with Tom Shales of The Washington Post, Little, Brown, 2002), which spent 15 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was chosen by Fortune Magazine as one of the top 75 books of all time to deal with workplace issues. Miller began his writing career at The Washington Post as a member of its TV team. Miller received his undergraduate degree in Economics and Political Science with honors from Occidental College in Los Angeles, an M. Litt. with honors from Oxford University, and an MBA with honors from Harvard University. The father of three children, Miller serves as a consultant to the television industry and also writes from his home in Bucks County, PA. Tom Shales Photo: Victoria Will Tom Shales, longtime TV critic for The Washington Post, won the Pulitzer Prize for his work in 1988, the same year he won a citation from the American Society of Newspaper Editors for his post-mortem "appreciations" of TV and movie notables. Shales, born in Elgin, Illinois, was editor of his high school newspaper, The Mirror, and his college newspaper, The Eagle, at The American University in Washington, DC, where he received a BA in 1977. In addition to the Post, Shales has written for Electronic Media (later called TV Week), Esquire, Playboy, and other publications. He served for 25 years as a movie critic at National Public Radio, many of those years on the program "Morning Edition." On television, he filled in for the late Gene Siskel on two editions of "Siskel & Ebert at the Movies" and has appeared on talk shows hosted by Conan O'Brien, Charlie Rose, Phil Donahue, Oprah Winfrey and with Garry Shandling on an episode of Shandling's "Larry Sanders Show." He is co-author, with James Andrew Miller, of the 2002 bestseller "Live from New York: An Uncensored History of 'Saturday Night Live'" and author of two collections of his newspaper pieces, "On the Air!" and "Legends." He lives in McLean, Va. His favorite Ben & Jerry's flavor is Oatmeal Cookie Chunk.

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