Tina Fey

Tina Fey is the author of Bossypants. Born unexpectedly in 1970, Tina had a good, stable upbringing thanks to her parents. She was especially influenced by her father and his example, and through the course of the memoir becomes comfortable with herself to the point that she is easily able to criticize herself and draw important lessons from her experiences–such as why females should not sabotage other females, and that merit, not gender, makes the real difference.

Tina came to fall in love with theater, studied drama in college, and moved to Chicago. There, she worked at the YMCA where she learned how to work with others, and then she was hired on to act in the Second City where she fell in love with comedy improv. From there, Tina was hired on to work at SNL and later came to create and produce the show...