DAVE BARRY & RIDLEY PEARSON: A CONVERSATION – FICTION

DAVE BARRY is the author of more bestsellers than you can count on two hands, including Swamp Story, Lessons from Lucy, Dave Barry’s Complete Guide to Guys, Dave Barry Turns Forty, and Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up. He is also the lead guitarist of the literary rock band the Rock Bottom Remainders. No, really. A wildly popular syndicated columnist, Barry won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. He lives in Miami.

RIDLEY PEARSON is the author of the bestselling Kingdom Keepers Inheritance middle-grade thriller series and 40 other novels for adults and young readers. He also co-wrote, with Dave Barry, Peter and the Starcatchers, a prequel to J.M. Barry’s Peter Pan; later adapted for Broadway, it won five Tony Awards. His novel The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life At Rose Red was filmed as an ABC TV movie special event. A Fulbright fellow, Ridley taught creative writing at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and at Boise State University. Kingdom Keepers: Inheritance: Villains' Realm (Kingdom Keepers Inheritance Book 2) (Disney Hyperion) is the second installment of his Kingdom Keepers Inheritance trilogy.