Bob Mitchell was born in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of six nonfiction books, a collection of poems, and the bestselling novels Match Made in Heaven and Once Upon a Fastball (which have been translated into six languages, were under three film options, have been produced as two audiobooks and two e-books, and appear in a number of college and high school curricula). His third novel Everything on the Line, about tennis and life, has been released (May, 2013) as both an e-book and an audiobook. He has recently completed a novel, Masaccio's Gift, about the Italian Renaissance artist Masaccio, and is currently working on a collection of short stories titled A Slut Nixes Sex in Tulsa. He studied at Williams College and Harvard University, where he received a Ph.D. in French and Comparative Literature. He has had careers as a French professor, a teaching tennis pro, and an advertising Creative Director and has lived in Paris, Brittany, Angers, Besançon, Marrakech, London, Montreal, Florence, Stockholm, and Tel Aviv. He resides in Carlsbad, California, with his wife, Susan Love (an artist).