Mark Myers

When I got into the authoring business twelve years ago, I'd been a newspaper reporter, advertising executive, and lecturer in communications at Boston University. I'd spent my life making things easy to understand and, if possible, entertaining. What's more, I understood learning. It's what got me through Harvard, cum laude, with a minimum of effort. As a dedicated home cook who owned a hundred cookbooks, I knew that even the great Julia Child couldn't transfer her skills to me through the written word. I had to practice. With this background and years of coding experience as a computer enthusiast, I felt I was the right guy to reinvent the computer language book. My learner-friendly teaching approach, put to the test in my Smarter Way to Learn series, has accumulated more than four thousand five-star reviews on Amazon—a record for books in this category.