MARILYN JOHNSON is the author of This Book is Overdue! How Librarians And Cybrarians Can Save Us All andThe Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries She has been a staff writer for Life and an editor for Esquire. Her articles and poetry have appeared in many publications, and her reviews and essays about books appear every week on AARP Online. She lives in Briarcliff, New York.