Texas - David Baird

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David Baird
is a writer, editor, and translator based in Austin, Texas. He was born and bred in Houston, though he spent part of his childhood in Morelia, Mexico. He has contributed to several works about Texas and Mexico, including Frommer
s
Mexico.

Edie Jarolim
was a senior editor at Frommer
s in New York before she indulged her Southwest fantasies and moved to Tucson, Arizona. She has since written about the Southwest and Mexico for a variety of national publications, ranging from
America West Airlines Magazine, Art & Antiques,
and
Brides
to the
New York Times Book Review
and the
Wall Street Journal.

Eric Peterson,
a Denver–based freelance writer, has contributed to
Frommer
s Colorado
and has authored
Frommer
s Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks.
When he
s not on the road or writing about travel, Peterson covers Colorado
s business scene and Denver
s punk–rock underbelly.

Neil E. Schlecht
was reared in North Dallas. He attended Plano Senior High School, returned for graduate school at UT
Austin, and married a Texan. Now living in northwestern Connecticut, he is the author and co–author of more than a dozen travel guides, including
Frommer
s Peru, Spain For Dummies,
and
Frommer
s Cuba.
His Texas heroes are Lance Armstrong, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore.