Norman Conquest is a verbo-visual prankster based in the Bay Area. In 1989, he founded the anti-censorship art collective, Beuyscouts of Amerika (beuyscouts.com). He is the author of many books, including Sartre's French Phrase Book; Interiors: A Book of Very Clean Rooms; A Beginner's Guide To Art Deconstruction; By Any Means: An Avant-Pop Anthology; The Selected Poems of Edward D. Wood, Jr.; The Little Cock That Could; Eight Adult Males & Other Odd Tales; Burn This Book; It's Fun To Be Rich in America (with Michael Leigh); The Neglected Works of Norman Conquest; Snowdrop in Africa.