Merrill Markoe has authored three books of humorous essays and the novels It’s My F—ing Birthday and What the Dogs Have Taught Me which have been all published by the Random House Publishing Group. She has also co-authored with Andy Prieboy the novel The Psycho Ex Game, as well as two talking dog novels: Walking in Circles Before Lying Down (2006) which is now in its twenty-fourth printing and Nose Down, Eyes Up which was published by Random House in 2009. From 1978-1988 Markoe was a writer for the David Letterman show, for which she won numerous Emmy awards, and has been an on- air reporter for a number of magazine shows, including Michael Moore’s TV Nation and HBO’s satirical hit Not Necessarily the News. Her freelance writing includes print publications (Rolling Stone, Time, New York Woman, The New York Times and Los Angles Times) and television shows (Newhart, Moonlighting, Sex in the City).

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