Carol Verburg is best known as an award-winning playwright, theatre directors, author of best-selling books, and longtime producer of original "entertainments" by the artist and writer Edward Gorey. She now lives in San Francisco, where she was launched into publishing many years ago by legendary editor Howard Boyer, to whom "Silent Night Violent Night" is dedicated. Her most recent books are "Croaked: an Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod Mystery" and the mini-bio "Edward Gorey Plays Cape Cod: Puppets, People, Places, & Plots."