Timothee de Fombelle is an award-winning novelist, playwright, and professor of literature in France. He is best known for his novels Tobie Lolness (which has been translated into twenty-nine languages) and Vango, which was chosen to represent France for the IBBY Honour List. He has received about twenty awards, including the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire and the Saint Exupery Prize. Gramercy Park is his first graphic novel. Why comics? "Because I felt that this story needed air, I wanted it to be less of a novel, it was a story based on the silence of these two characters who observe each other," says the writer. Christian Cailleaux is a graphic novelist, illustrator, and extremely poor trumpet player, just like the hero of his graphic novels The Imposters. He is an active traveler, having lived for fifteen years alternately in Africa, Quebec, and France. Between creating graphic novels, designing a front cover for a novel or a jazz record sleeve, he enjoys telling stories about setting sail for unpredictable encounters in far-flung climes.