Chris Holaday lives in Durham and is the author of a number of books, including Southern Breads, as well as several on baseball. He graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and has a master's degree in history from North Carolina Central University. Patrick Cullom grew up in Raleigh and is an archivist in the Special Collections at Wilson Library, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He graduated with a degree in history from North Carolina State University and has a master's degree in library science from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.