Stephan Pastis is the author-illustrator of Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made, a New York Times Bestseller. He is also the creator of the devoutly followed comic strip Pearls Before Swine, which appears in more than seven hundred newspapers worldwide. His compilation Larry in Wonderland debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list for paperback graphic novels. Stephan Pastis lives in northern California, USA.