Authors & Illustrators represented by Don Congdon Associates

Judith Viorst is the author of the beloved Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, which has sold some four million copies; the Lulu books, including Lulu and the Brontosaurus; the New York Times bestseller Necessary Losses; four musicals; and poetry for children and young adults. Her most recent books of poetry include What Are You Glad About? What Are You Mad About? and Nearing Ninety. Her new book, Making the Best of What's Left: When We're Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered, will be published in the spring of 2025. She lives in Washington, D.C.

Michael Walsh was for 16 years the classical music critic and foreign correspondent for Time Magazine and has also worked for the San Francisco Examiner and the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. He is the author of eighteen books, of fiction and non-fiction, including The Devil's Pleasure Palace, The Fiery Angel and Last Stands as well as the novels Exchange Alley, As Time Goes By (the authorized sequel to the movie Casablanca), and And All the Saints, an "autobiography "of the Prohibition era-gangster Owney Madden, which won the 2004 American Book Awards for fiction. His next book is A Rage to Conquer: Twelve Battles that Changed the Course of Western History. He divides his time between Connecticut and western Ireland.

Charles Williams (1909-1975) was one of the preeminent authors of American crime fiction. Born in Texas, he dropped out of school in tenth grade to enlist in the US MerchantMarine, serving ten years before leaving to work in the electronics industry. At the end of World War II, Williams began writing fiction in San Francisco, where the success of the “backwoods noir” Hill Girl (1951) allowed him to quit his job and write full time for the rest of his life. Williams’ clean and somewhat casual narrative style distinguishes his novels, which range from hard boiled noir to suspense thrillers set in the sea and the deep South. Although published by pulp houses, his work won great critical acclaim, with Hell Hath No Fury (1953) becoming the first paperback original to be reviewed by legendary New York Times critic Anthony Boucher. To date, at least 15 of his novels were adapted to the screen, including Dead Calm (1963) and Don’t Just Stand There! (1966), for which Williams wrote the screenplay. He died in 1975.

Karie Willyerd is the co-author of The 2020 Workplace, a bestselling, award-winning business book published by Harper Business in 2010. She has held positions such as Chief Talent Officer or Chief Learning Officer in companies such as H.J. Heinz, Sun Microsystems, Lockheed Martin, SAP, and Solectron. She founded, served as CEO, and sold a social collaboration software company to SAP in 2010. Karie is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review.

Kit Wohl is an award-winning writer, photographer, and artist. A lifelong food and wine enthusiast, she has authored 10 cookbooks that celebrate chefs and cuisine. The Arnaud's Restaurant Cookbook and The P&J Oyster Cookbook were followed by The James Beard Foundation's Best of the Best: A 25th Anniversary Celebration of America's Outstanding Chefs, by Kit Wohl, Foreword by Martha Stewart. New Orleans Classic Creole: Recipes from Favorite Restaurants is the eighth in her acclaimed Classic series.