Madhur Jaffrey is an Indian actress and food writer. Born in Delhi, she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. In 1965, she won Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival for her performance in James Ivory's Shakespeare Wallah. Jaffrey is best known for her dozens of cookbooks which helped to popularize Indian cuisine. She is also the author of Climbing the Mango Tree, a memoir about her youth in the final years of the British Raj.

Michael Foreman has illustrated more than one hundred books, including those for stories by J.M. Barrie, the Brothers Grimm, Charles Dickens, and Oscar Wilde. His most recent work includes The Seeds of Friendship, which he wrote and illustrated, and the illustrations for Michael Morpurgo's retellings of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Beowulf. He is the illustrator of Leon Garfield's Shakespeare Stories, published by the NYR Children's Collection.