Matthue Roth's first novel, Never Mind the Goldbergs, was named a Best Book for the Teen Age by the New York Public Library and a Popular Paperback in Religion by the ALA. He's also written a memoir, Yom Kippur a Go-Go, a supermodel spy caper, Candy in Action, and a Russian Jewish hacker mystery, Losers. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, and he's a Hasidic Jew.