I live in Duxbury, Massachusetts, a historic seaside village near Boston. It's a good place to live. People pick up litter from the side of the road—and dead Pilgrims are buried here.

I have a small but fantastic family: one husband, one son, two dogs, and one cat.

This little girl in the picture is me when I was in the first grade. I grew up in South Carolina, a beautiful state with mountains, beaches, and lots of interesting stuff in between. (I don't think any dead Pilgrims are buried there, though.)

I've always loved to write. As a child, I wrote poems and stories and even a whole book. Now that I'm grown, I still love to write. And I love children. So it seems only logical to write for children.

I enjoy writing biographies because I like reading about people's lives and I like to research. (I really do!) And I like turning facts about a life into a story about a life.