Weiner, Ellis: - Ellis Weiner began as an editor with National Lampoon, moved on to freelancing for a thousand magazines back when they existed, and was one of the original columnists ("How to Be a Grownup") of the much-lamented Spy magazine. In 1980 he began contributing to the New Yorker, which still exists.He is, with his late wife, Barbara Davilman, co-author of the best-selling Yiddish With Dick and Jane, as well as How to Raise a Jewish Dog and How to Profit From the Coming Rapture (Little, Brown). Solo, he is author of many books, including The Joy of Worry (Chronicle) and the middle-grade series The Templeton Twins Have an Idea and The Templeton Twins Make a Scene (Chronicle).And, of course, he is co-author, with Steve Radlauer, of Monsters of the Ivy League (Little, Brown).He lives in Los Angeles.