Marc Silver on Marc Silver:
I'm the author of BREAST CANCER HUSBAND: How to Help Your Wife (And Yourself) Through Diagnosis, Treatment, and Beyond, and a great believer in the motto of the breast cancer husband: "Shut up and listen." Really, it works for just about any husband.

A native of Baltimore and a graduate of the University of Maryland, I have been a reporter for over 30 years. I began my journalism career at the Baltimore Jewish Times and became editor of the National Jewish Monthly in 1981. At the Jewish Monthly, I won awards for excellence in North American Jewish journalism for an account of families facing Tay-Sachs disease (both my wife, Marsha, and I carry the Tay-Sachs gene) and for coverage of the first American gathering of Holocaust survivors. I joined the News You Can Use staff at U.S. News & World Report in 1989, writing about health, education, travel, books, and environmental issues. I am currently the magazine's assistant managing editor for features. I edited U.S. News's Great Vacation Drives book for five years, and won a Northern Lights award for excellence in travel journalism for "Wuthering Hikes," describing a family trip to Canada's Cape Breton.

When Marsha was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001, I wished I had a book to guide me through the difficult months ahead, because I had no clue what to do. In the spring of 2002, after Marsha finished her treatments, I began working on the proposal for BREAST CANCER HUSBAND. Even though many publishers told me that "men don't buy self-help books," I was sure this was one book that guys would buy–and if they didn't, their wives would buy it for them.