"Famously funny, this book flies like Ben Franklin's kite, but into a nuclear reactor. Forget the lightning; kids' stuff!"--Ridley Pearson, New York Times best-selling author of The Kingdom Keepers series and Peter and the Starcatchers
"This is absolutely the funniest book about time-traveling mail and Benjamin Franklin that I have ever read. And I have read them all."--Dave Barry, New York Times Best-Selling author of The Worst Class Trip Ever
An original
Saturday Night Live writer,
ALAN ZWEIBEL has won multiple Emmy and Writers Guild of America awards for his work in television, which also includes
It's Garry Shandling's Show, Late Show With David Letterman, and
Curb Your Enthusiasm. In the theater he collaborated with Billy Crystal on the Tony Award winning play
700 Sundays, wrote the off-Broadway play
Bunny Bunny: Gilda Radner: A Sort of Romantic Comedy which he adapted from his book, and his novel
The Other Shulman won the 2006 Thurber Prize for American Humor.
ADAM MANSBACH is the author if the instant
New York Times best sellers
Go the **** to Sleep and
You Have to ******* Eat, as well as the novels
Rage is Back,
The Dead Run,
Angry Black White Boy, and
The End of the Jews, winner of the California Book Award. His work has appeared in
The New Yorker,
New York Times Book Review,
Esquire,
The Believer, and on National Public Radio's
All Things Considered.
Together, Adam and Alan are also the authors of the second book in this series,
Benjamin Franklin: You've Got Mail.