Mark Kurlansky is a James Beard Award-winning writer of several works of nonfiction. He has written, edited, or contributed to twenty books, which have been translated into twenty-five languages and won numerous prizes. He is the author of Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World (1997), 1968: The Year That Rocked the World (2004), and The Food of a Younger Land (2009), all of which were New York Times best-sellers.
Richard M. Davidson, an actor who has appeared on television in Life with Judy Garland and Law and Order, has also performed numerous audiobooks.