David Stanford, a freelance editor working with nonfiction, fiction, humor and cartoons, spent 20 years in New York trade book publishing, the last 10 as a senior editor at Viking Penguin. He has worked with authors ranging from Ken Kesey, William S. Burroughs, and the Estate of Jack Kerouac to Don Dunphy, Stewart Brand, and Alice Notley to Charles Schulz, Art Spiegelman and G.B. Trudeau.

Over the past 25 years he has worked with Garry Trudeau on innumerable fascinating projects, and has served as Duty Officer of the Doonesbury Town Hall since its launch in 1996. He and his family live in rural New York.