Bess Bell Kalb

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Bess Kalb is an Emmy-nominated comedy writer and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Buffalo Fluffalo children’s book series, and the bestselling memoir Nobody Will Tell You This But Me, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. She wrote for eight years for Jimmy Kimmel Live!, for which she won a WGA Award, 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 was head writer and executive producer of the Writers Guild Award–nominated comedy special Yearly Departed, and is adapting Nobody Will Tell You This but Me into a feature film with Sight Unseen Pictures. As an advocate for free speech, she testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee against government censorship and book bans. You can read her writing on her comedy and politics newsletter, The Grudge Report.

 

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Advance Praise for Nobody Will Tell You This But Me

“Tender, funny, fresh, and unconventional. Kalb has a light, lovely touch and a big heart, which combine to make this book irresistible.” —Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book

“I have not been as profoundly moved by a book in years. If you have a mother or grandmother, or ARE a mother or a grandmother, this is required reading.” —Jodi Picoult, author of A Spark of Light 

“Nobody Will Tell You This But Me has bursts of comic lines as good as in any movie, and pathos as deep as in any novel. I love this book.” —Mike Birbiglia, author ofThe New One

“Deeply moving and powerful. . . [an] act of love. This book made me miss my own grandmother.” —Peter Sagal, host of NPR's Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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