Ryan Holiday is one of the world's bestselling living philosophers. His books, including The Daily Stoic, The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy, Stillness Is the Key and his #1 New York Times bestselling series on the Stoic Virtues, appear in more than forty languages and have sold over ten million copies. He lives outside Austin with his wife and two boys ... and a small herd of cows and donkeys and goats. His bookstore, The Painted Porch, sits on historic Main Street in Bastrop, Texas.

Stephen Hanselman has worked for four decades in publishing as a bookseller, publisher, and literary agent. He is co-author of the #1 Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestseller Lives of the Stoics, as well as the #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller The Daily Stoic and The Daily Stoic Journal. He is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School where he received a master's degree while studying extensively in Harvard's philosophy department. He lives with his wife and twin sons in South Orange, New Jersey.