Foster Hirsch is a professor of film at Brooklyn College, a frequent host and moderator at repertory cinemas and film festivals, and the author of books on film and theater including The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir, Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King, and Kurt Weill on Stage from Berlin to Broadway. His most recent book (Knopf), is Hollywood and the Movies of the FiftiesThe Collapse of the Studio System. The Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher-Television.

Victoria Wilson, as Vice President, Executive Editor at Alfred A. Knopf, in addition to publishing Foster Hirsch,  has worked with many writers, among them: Anne Rice, Lorrie Moore, Christopher Plummer, Billy Dee Williams, George Stevens, Suzanne Simard, Wendy Wasserstein, Arthur Laurents, Lauren Bacall, Eve Babitz, Rose Styron, Amy Klobuchar, Laurie Colwin, Peter Beard, Mary Ellen Mark, Jill Ciment, Sapphire, Jane Alexander,  Jacques d'Amboise,  and Erin Brockovitch. 

After five decades at Knopf, Wilson recently left to write and to act as a consulting editor .  Her biography, A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940  was published to great acclaim (“Monumental.” -- Peter Bogdanovich;  “Huge and wonderful and rich. ”—Anne Rice; “860 glittering pages” -- Janet Maslin, The NYT ). She is at work on the concluding volume of the Stanwyck biography. Wilson has served on many boards and was appointed by President Clinton to the US Commission on Civil Rights.