Charles Timmerman (South Pasadena, CA) is the founder of Funster.com, a word game website that was selected as a Yahoo! Pick of the Year, and is the author of more than twenty-five Everything puzzle books, including The Everything Giant Book of Crosswords, The Everything Movie Crosswords Book, The Everything Word Search Book, and The Everything Giant Sudoku Book. He also created some of the very first computer games for Microsoft Windows, including the Symantec Game Pack, a collection of traditional games and puzzles.