Michael Karol is an award-winning New York-based entertainment journalist and author. His books include Lucy A to Z: The Lucille Ball Encyclopedia; The ABC Movie of the Week Companion; Sitcom Queens: Divas of the Small Screen; and The TV Tidbits Classic Television Book of Lists. He has interviewed an eclectic list of performers over the years, including soap diva Susan Lucci; blues legend Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson; artist, writer and producer Peter Brown (who had the first 12-inch million seller with “Do Ya Wanna Get Funky With Me?” and wrote Madonna’s “Material Girl”); songbird Phyllis Hyman; actors Denise Nickerson, John Noble, Jane Connell, Doris Singleton, Kathryn Joosten, and David Hedison; and behind-the-scenes movers and shakers like Wonderfalls creator Bryan Fuller, House, M.D.’s creator and executive producer, David Shore, and I Love Lucy’s film editor, Dann Cahn, and director William Asher, who helmed I Love Lucy and Bewitched, among other classics.