Sheila Swan and Peter Laufer, authors of Neon Nevada.1994, revised and updated 2024.

Sheila Swan learned photography as an assistant in her father’s portrait studio. She joined the Nevada Craft Guild shortly after it was founded and began her study of Nevada’s relationship with neon. Peter Laufer has authored or edited more than two dozen books, including two with Sheila Swan. He is the James Wallace Chair Professor of Journalism at the University of Oregon. Laufer was founding editor of Nevada’s Gold Hill News.