Ohio-bred, Yale-educated David Pogue is the author of the #1 Mac bestseller Macs For Dummies (IDG Books, 23 printings, 15 languages); its inevitable sequel, MORE Macs For Dummies; and Macworld Mac FAQs, the book of 500 frequently asked questions (and their answers).
He writes the monthly Desktop Critic column in Macworld. His novel, Hard Drive, a Macintosh thriller (Berkley Publishing Group) has been translated into three languages and was a New York Times “notable book of the year.” His Mac students include Stephen Sondheim, Carly Simon, Mike Nichols, Gay Talese, Gary Oldman, Natasha Richardson, and Mia Farrow.
In his other lives, David is a dinner-table magician, occasional Broadway conductor, and, with collaborator Joseph Schorr, composer of such little-known musicals as Downtown Local and Odysseus: The Man and His Music. He welcomes electronic mail on America Online (address: Pogue).
Joseph Schorr, a journalist and playwright, writes the monthly Secrets column for Macworld. A 1985 graduate of Yale University, he spent seven years as a reporter with The Oregonian newspaper in Portland, Oregon, and is currently the editorial production manager of a Mac-based publishing company in Eugene, Oregon.
Joe wrote Mac SECRETS while living in an absurdly remote town in the White Mountains of Arizona, where he communicated with the outside world solely via America Online (address: Schorr). His plays have been produced at Yale, Off-Off Broadway, and at Wolf Trap.
