Michael Morrison与电脑世界结下不解之缘的开端，就是他的第一台个人电脑TI-99/4A，配件包括至高无上的人体工程学键盘、黑白TV“显示器”，还有那甜美的卡式带存储系统。往后的岁月里，他又曾拥有过其他电脑“玩具”，不过仍然时时怀念着当年在TI上把玩Parsec、在后院玩Nerf足球的日子。

现在的Michael已经长大成人，兴趣也变得比较成熟一点，例如建立交互网络应用程序……还有滑板。割伤、擦伤，大伤小伤不断，他面对技术挑战的方式其实与挑战极限运动时一样有勇无谋。在开发过几款电视游戏、发明过几种玩具、写了快50本书、建立许多在线课程后，Michael终于觉得可以面对《深入浅出Javascript》的挑战……他以后再也不相信自己的感觉了。

事实上，面对“深入浅出”系列的写作时，不可能有准备好的那一天。选择墨菲斯手中的红色药丸，进入Head First黑客帝国(Matrix)的世界，已经是最佳准备途径了。当Michael从另一个世界中醒来后，身上也还残留着智力较量下的淤青，他看待学习(与教学)的眼光完全不一样了。这是多么令人兴奋的一件事啊！现在这个时候，他大概正与老婆一起在鲤鱼池边，反思着交互性万维网的神妙之处。

Lynn Beighley is a fiction writer stuck in a technical book writer's body. Upon discovering that technical book writing actually paid real money, she learned to accept and enjoy it. After going back to school to get a Masters in Computer Science, she worked for the acronyms NRL and LANL. Then she discovered Flash, and wrote her first bestseller. A victim of bad timing, she moved to Silicon Valley just before the great crash. She spent several years working for Yahoo! and writing other books and training courses. Finally giving in to her creative writing bent, she moved to the New York area to get an MFA in Creative Writing. Her Head First-style thesis was delivered to a packed room of professors and fellow students. It was extremely well received, and she finished her degree, finished Head First SQL, and just finished Head First PHP & MySQL. Whew!

Lynn loves traveling, writing, and making up elaborate background stories about complete strangers. She's a little scared of UFOs.