Jane Freeman began her career as a painter but has made her reputation as a master miniaturist. She lives in New York City.
Roger Rosenblatt's essays for Time and The NewsHour on PBS have won two George Polk Awards, the Peabody, and the Emmy. He is the author of six off- Broadway plays and seventeen books, including New York Times Notable Books Kayak Morning and The Boy Detective , as well as other national bestsellers Unless It Moves the Human Heart , Making Toast , Rules for Aging , and Children of War , which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has held the Briggs-Copeland appointment in the teaching of writing at Harvard, and is currently Distinguished Professor of English and Writing at Stony Brook University. He lives in Quogue, New… York.