<p class="biography" <b Holly Dressel</b , co-author of <i From Naked Ape to Superspecies</i , has been a writer and researcher for television, film, and radio for twenty years and has worked for CBC TV's <i The Nature of Things</i . She lives near Montreal, Quebec. </pGeorgeanne Brennan grew up in Southern California and attended the San Diego State University, the University of Aix-Marseille in Provence, and the University of California at San Diego. After returning to California to start a teaching position, Brennan and a friend started a vegetable seed company that they promoted with a recipe-filled catalog. The pair struck success and began writing weekly… columns for the San Jose Mercury News and the San Francisco Chronicle. Brennan published Apertif: Recipes for Simple Pleasure in the French Style, which won the Julia Child Cookbook Award in the Food & Spirits Category and The Food and Flavors of Haute Provence, which won the James Beard Award in the International Category.
Crawford is a photographer whose work has appeared in every major national and international architecture magazine as well as in several books on architecture and design.