Who are Brian Williams and Stacey Sawyer? We are a married couple living near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, with an avid interest in seeing students become well educated—especially in information technology, a subject we have been writing about for 25 years.

What best describes what we do? We consider ourselves watchers and listeners. We spend our time watching what's happening in business and society and on college campuses and listening to the views expressed by instructors, students, and other participants in the computer revolution. We then try to translate those observations into meaningful language that students can understand.

Individually or together we have authored more than 25 books (and over 30 revisions), most of them on computers and information technology. Other IT titles on which we have been co-authors are Computers & Data Processing; Computers & Information Systems; Computers, Communications, & Information: A User's Introduction; Computer Essentials; Microcomputing: Annual Edition; Computing Essentials: Annual Edition; Microcomputing Essentials; Microcomputing Fundamentals; The Urgently Needed Parent's Guide to Computers; PowerPack for the IBM PC; Structured COBOL: Programming & Problem Solving; and DOS 5.0, WordPerfect 5.1, Lotus 1-2-3 (2.2 and 2.3), & dBASE IV. Brian is also coauthor of Management: A Practical Introduction.

Both of us have a commitment to helping students succeed in college. Brian, for instance, has co-authored six books in the college success field: Learning Success, The Commuter Student, The Urban Student, The Practical Student, The Successful Distance Learning Student, and College to Career. Stacey has an interest in language education and has worked on several college textbooks in English as a Second Language (ESL) and in Spanish, German, French, and Italian. We thus bring to our information-technology books an awareness of the needs of the increasingly diverse student bodies now in our colleges.

Brian has a B.A. and M.A. from Stanford University and has held managerial jobs in education, communications, and publishing. Stacey has a B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan and an M.A. from Middlebury College and the University of Mainz, Germany. She has taught at Ohio State University and managed and consulted for a number of for-profit and nonprofit health, educational, and publishing organizations.

In our spare time, we enjoy travel, music, cooking, and exploring the wilds of the American West.