Bruce Buschel worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia magazine before writing for The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Rolling Stone, Premiere, and Sport magazine. He has won an ASCAP Award for his articles about music, has been anthologized in the Best American Sports Writing series, and cocreated the five-time Obie-winning musical Eli's Comin', based on the songs of Laura Nyro. He has also produced and directed a series of jazz films, Live at the Village Vanguard, and Grover Washington Jr. in Concert. Buschel has one wife, two sons, a dog named Lulu, and a cat named E. D.