Benson S. Forbes is the pen name for co-authors and married couple John Benson and Shari S. Forbes of Sherwood, Oregon. Benson grew up in England worked for the British Ministry of Defense before immigrating to the U.S. Forbes, a native of Rush County, Kansas, is an award-winning writer and editor. The Bottom Five is their first novel, first published in 2003. Other novels include Mad Cows Come Back To Bite, published in 2004, and Cracking Heads, published in 2007. The couple currently divides their time between their home in Redlands, California and their home in the country near Sherwood, Oregon where they continue to collaborate on writing works of fiction.