Frances O’Roark Dowell is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of many novels, including Dovey Coe, Trouble the Water, Chicken Boy, the Secret Language of Girls series, and most recently the Sam the Man series. She is a firm believer that you can’t tell much about people’s insides by looking at their outsides, which is one of the reasons she wrote The Class. Connect with Frances online at francesdowell.com.