Author of the children's classic "Have You Seen My Dinosaur?" and creator of the NBC children's television series "Muggsy," Jon Surgal has also written for such publications as Evergreen Review, the National Lampoon, American Imago, Victorian Literature and Culture, American Book Review, and Partisan Review. He has recently finished a book of literary biography called "The Dickens Orphans." In the 1980s he photographed the war of American aggression in Nicaragua. His more recent photography frequently investigates the everyday hazards of urban life.
