Rigoberta Mench� Tum won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. She lives in Guatemala and devotes herself to fighting for the rights of Maya Guatemalans and other Indigenous people in the Americas as head of the Fundacion Rigoberta Menchu Tum. She has received numerous international awards and honorary degrees and has also written Crossing Borders: An Autobiography , and I, Rigoberta Mench�: An Indian Woman in Guatemala . Her other books for young people, co-written with Dante Liano, include The Girl from Chimel and The Honey Jar , both companion books to The Secret Legacy .
Dante Liano is an eminent Guatemalan writer and National Literature Award laureate. He currently lives in Milan, where he teaches Latin American literature. He is the author of The Man from Montserrat, The San Andres Mystery and co-authored of The Girl from Chimel .