David Ira Rottenberg is a writer, painter, and teacher of Transcendental Meditation. He has written a popular series of children’s books, Gwendolyn, the Graceful Pig, Gwendolyn Goes Hollywood, and Gwendolyn’s Nutty Nutcracker. Other books by Mr. Rottenberg are Margarita’s Star, another picture book, a young adult novel, Outside the Edges, a poetry book, Soldiers of Beauty, and a nonfiction book, The Solution System: Mastering Consciousness and Creativity. In addition to his books, he has been painting abstract art for over thirty years.more