Max Cryer is a well-known writer, broadcaster and entertainer. In a long career, he has been a schoolteacher, a compere and television host, as well as a performer on the opera stage in London and in cabaret in Las Vegas and Hollywood. Now a full-time writer living in Auckland, he has written many books, including 'Every Dog Has Its Day', 'Who Said That First?', 'Love Me Tender', 'The Godzone Dictionary', 'Preposterous Proverbs' and 'Curious English Words and Phrases'.