About the Authors
DON PERI is a Disney historian and the author of Working with Walt and Working with Disney, as well as the coauthor of Walt Disney's First Lady of Imagineering: Harriet Burns. He has consulted for The Walt Disney Family Foundation, plus lectured on Disney history at many venues, including The Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, The Walt Disney Company Consumer Products Division, Disneyland (for cast members), and The Walt Disney Family Museum. He appeared in the documentary Walt: The Man Behind the Myth. Don lives in Davis, California, with his wife and the memories of their dog, Indi.
PETE DOCTER is a three-time Academy Award-winning director of the Pixar films Monsters, Inc., Up, Inside Out, and Soul. Starting at Pixar as the tenth employee in the animation group, Pete helped develop the story and characters for the world's first computer-animated feature film, Toy Story, for which he became the film's supervising animator. Besides his directing work, Pete has storyboarded, written, and served as executive producer on many Pixar films. His career mirrors that of many of the directors in this book, giving him a firsthand understanding of the job as well as insight into how it's changed since Walt's time.