Robert Koch, a native New Yorker, studied at Harvard, New York, and Yale Universities and taught for many years at Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven. He lives in Stamford, Connecticut.
Suzanne Tennenbaum is a noted collector of fine jewelry, and particularly of animal jewelry.Janet Zapata served for many years as archivist of Tiffany & Co. and is the author of The Jewelry and Enamels of Louis Comfort Tiffany.