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Bess Kalb is an Emmy-nominated comedy writer and the New York Times bestselling author of the Buffalo Fluffalo children’s book series, and Nobody Will Tell You This but Me, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. She wrote for eight years for Jimmy Kimmel Live! and has written for the Emmy Awards, the Academy Awards, the Democratic National Convention, and has contributed to The New Yorker and This American Life. She is head writer and executive producer of the Writers Guild Award–nominated Yearly Departed, an Amazon comedy special, and is adapting Nobody Will Tell You This but Me into a feature film with Sight Unseen Pictures. She is also the author of the bestselling comedy and politics newsletter The Grudge Report, with 50,000 subscribers from major magazine editors, blockbuster Hollywood producers, and members of Congress. Bess lives with her husband and two children in New York.

 
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Bess Kalb is an Emmy-nominated comedy writer and the New York Times bestselling author of the Buffalo Fluffalo children’s book series, and Nobody Will Tell You This but Me, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. She wrote for eight years for Jimmy Kimmel Live! and has written for the Emmy Awards, the Academy Awards, the Democratic National Convention, and has contributed to The New Yorker and This American Life. She is head writer and executive producer of the Writers Guild Award–nominated Yearly Departed, an Amazon comedy special, and is adapting Nobody Will Tell You This but Me into a feature film with Sight Unseen Pictures. She is also the author of the bestselling comedy and politics newsletter The Grudge Report, with 50,000 subscribers from major magazine editors, blockbuster Hollywood producers, and members of Congress. Bess lives with her husband and two children in New York.

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