Dian Hanson est née à Seattle en 1951. Pendant 25 ans, elle a dirigé différents magazines masculins parmi lesquels Puritan, Juggs et Leg Show, avant de prendre la tête de la collection sexy de TASCHEN en 2001. Parmi les nombreux ouvrages qu elle a signés pour TASCHEN, citons Vanessa del Rio: Fifty Years of Slightly Slutty Behavior, Tom of Finland XXL et The Big Butt Book. Elle vit à Los Angeles.

Sarahjane Blum is an author, cultural historian, and co-owner of Grapefruit Moon Gallery, which specializes in original American illustration art. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Louis Meisel is owner of one of the oldest pin-up and illustration art galleries in New York. He is the co-author of TASCHEN s The Great American Pin-up and Gil Elvgren: All his Glamorous American Pin-ups.