Robert L. Bloch is program officer of the H&R Block Foundation, and treasurer and director of the Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation. His father, Henry Bloch, cofounded H&R Block in 1955. The author's great-great grandfather was one of fifty-two Leavenworth merchants and businessmen who signed a letter written by Mark Delahay requesting Abraham Lincoln visit Leavenworth, Kansas. Lincoln obliged by traveling there to give his first campaign speech in December, 1859. Bloch lives in Mission Hills, Kansas.
John W. Ewing joined the team at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, where he helped craft classic feature films, including Sleeping Beauty, The Sword in the Stone, The Jungle Book, Winnie the Pooh, and 1961's Oscar-nominated Aquamania.