Dave Astor

Dave Astor is the author of the part-factual/part-fictional/often-humorous 2024 feline memoir "Misty the Cat...Unleashed," the 2017 literary-trivia book "Fascinating Facts About Famous Fiction Authors and the Greatest Novels of All Time," and the 2012 memoir "Comic (and Column) Confessional." He also blogs about books at Dave Astor On Literature, writes the award-winning weekly Montclairvoyant humor column for Montclair Local, and was a longtime National Society of Newspaper Columnists board member who still copy-edits the organization's newsletter. The Montclair, New Jersey-based Dave is a former magazine writer/editor, newspaper reporter, and freelance cartoonist; a graduate of Rutgers and Northwestern universities; the husband of French professor Laurel Cummins; the father of Maggie and Maria; and (happily) the servant of Misty the Cat.