Jill Robinson has written nine books, including the bestsellers Perdido and her seminal memoir, Bed/Time/Story. She grew up in Hollywood, where her father ran MGM, and writes about issues of love and loss for Vogue, Vanity Fair, and the New York Times. Robinson runs the Wimpole Street Writers Group in London, where she lives with her husband, Stuart Shaw.
Stuart Shaw, born in Yorkshire, England, studied at Cambridge and served as a Royal Air Force officer before emigrating to the United States and a career as a Procter & Gamble executive, writer, critic, and journalist.
He lives in London with his wife, Jill Robinson.