<b>Mitchell Sharmat, </b>a graduate of Harvard University, has written numerous picture books, easy readers, and novels, and is a contributor to many textbook reading programs. He is best known for the classic <i>Gregory, the Terrible Eater</i>, a <i>Reading Rainbow </i>Feature Selection and a <i>New York Times </i>Critics’ Pick. In Mitchell Sharmat’s honor, The Sharmat Collection, displaying the books he has written, was established at the Harvard Graduate School of Education by the Munroe C. Gutman Library.