Guillermo del Toro was born October 9, 1964 in Guadalajara Jalisco, Mexico. He is a Mexican director, producer, screenwriter and designer. On June 2, 2009 he released his first novel, The Strain, which he co-authored with Chuck Hogan. It is intended to be the first book in a vampire trilogy. del Toro studied at the Instituto de Ciencias, University of Guadalajara, with his future wife, Lorenza Newton. He lives in Wellington, New Zealand, with his wife and his two daughters, Mariana and Marisa.
Chuck Hogan is an American author. He is the author of Prince of Thieves: A Novel, a work which Ben Affleck's Academy Award-nominated film The Town in 2010 is based on. The work won the 2005 Hammett Prize and was called one of the ten best novels of the year by Stephen King. He is also the co-author of a trilogy of vampire novels with Guillermo del Toro. His title The Night Eternal: Book III of The Strain Trilogy made Publisher's Weekly Best Seller List for 2011.