About the Author

TRACY GROOT lives in Michigan with her husband and three sons. She is the author of The Brother’s Keeper and Stones of My Accusers, which both received starred Booklist reviews, and Madman, a Christy Award winner that also received a starred Publishers Weekly review. Luckily, she and her husband own a coffee shop in Holland, Michigan, where a caffeine junkie can find acceptability and safe haven.

Tracy is a fan of the Detroit Lions, listens exclusively to Rich Mullins and U2, is an avid supporter of nothing in particular, and in her dreams would like to host a talk show with John Steinbeck, Charles Dickens, Michael Shaara, Donald Miller, C. S. Lewis, and G. K. Chesterton. In her dreams, she’d also like to stand on Little Round Top with Colonel Joshua Chamberlain and holler, “Fix bayonets!”

In her spare time she likes to read, knit socks, watch as many movies and TV shows as she can respectably get away with, mess around on the piano, bake very naughty amounts of sweets, and take long walks, preferably in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. She also likes to write, sometimes under the influence (of sweets, caffeine, misguided notions, and wild seismic fluctuations), sometimes not.

Someday she’d like to ride through the Badlands on a Harley with “Born to Be Wild” blaring on the radio, beat Bobby Fischer at chess, and round Cape Horn in a clipper ship. Her heroes include Mary Ann Patten (who rounded Cape Horn in a clipper ship), Raoul Wallenberg, Corrie ten Boom, Jack Groot, Evan Groot, Becca Groot, Grayson Groot, and Riley Groot.

To learn more about Tracy or her books, visit her online at www.tracygroot.com.