Ellis Weiner is an author and humourist who has previously worked as an editor of National Lampoon and a columnist for Spy Magazine. His humor has also appeared in The New Yorker, Paris Review, and the New York Times Magazine.

Weiner's novels and other books include:

• National Lampoon's Doon
• Yiddish with Dick and Jane
• The Joy of Worry
• Letters From Cicely
• Drop dead, My Lovely
• The Northern Exposure Cookbook: A Community Cookbook from the Heart of the alaskan Riviera
• The Great Muppet Caper