Shelley Lewis is the author of two books, contributing editor of two more, co-founder of the website Howdini.com, a wife, a mother, a daughter.   She spent the first 25 years of her career in mainstream media as a producer and executive producer of news programs for NBC, ABC, and CNN.   In 2003 she was a co-creator of Air America Radio, and served as vice president of programming for two years.   She began a second career as a writer and website owner in 2006, and she's never regretted it for a minute, except when she misses the bloated salary she used to earn as a network executive.

Her husband Dennis Kardon is an acclaimed artist, and their daughter Julia Kardon is a student at the University of Chicago. Obviously, Julia is much smarter than her mother, who earned a BFA in film and television at NYU.