Jesse Green is the author of The Velveteen Father: An Unexpected Journey to Parenthood (Villard/Random House: 1999). He is a much-anthologized, award-winning journalist and a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine; he has written for The New Yorker, The Washington Post, New York, Premiere, GQ, Philadelphia, Mirabella, and Out. His novel, O Beautiful, was called "one of the best first novels of the year" by Entertainment Weekly in 1992 and was reissued by Ballantine in 2000. He is also the creator, with the novelist Meg Wolitzer, of the Mind Games puzzle column, which appears bimonthly in the magazine Civilization. He lives in New York City.
