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Claire Bernard

Claire spends her time helping to steward the world toward a better future, one focused on environmental responsibility and social justice. She’s traveled the world doing so as president of the Mariposa Foundation. Which I guess makes her cool or something. When Claire is not doing all that, she’s busy with her really important work: authoring the exploits of the handsome, dashing Pizza Pie Man!

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PPM: What's your favorite pizza spot in NYC?

And now the Pizza Pie Man himself grills his author...

Screamer’s Pizzeria in Brooklyn.

PPM: What is your least favorite place in NYC?

Any place that doesn’t have vegan pizza.

PPM: That’s a lot of places. What do you think of Nino, by the way? Hate him, right? 

Oh, I love him. I think we all wish we had a Nino in our lives. 

PPM: Yuk. Thoughts on Penelope, the pigeon? 

How could you think she wouldn't eat you? 

PPM: That’s all your fault. You wrote it! What makes you think you’re qualified to write?

Over the years, I have written for publications like Vogue, Huffington Post, Maxim, Vice, Spin, and VanityFair.com, and I received an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University.

PPM: Where are you from? And don't say New York City.

New York City.

PPM: On a scale from a thousand to a million, how many Pizza Pie Man books do you think you'll write?

A gazillion. Unless you're an epic failure, then I'll move on to all my other children's book characters.

PPM: But you won’t love any of them as much as you love me, right?

Of course not, Pizza Pie Man :)

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