ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Donna Jo Napoli is the acclaimed and award-winning author of many novels—both fantasies and contemporary stories. She won the Golden Kite Award for Stones in Water in 1997. Her novel Zel was named an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books Blue Ribbon, and a School Library Journal Best Book. A number of her novels have been selected as ALA Best Books. She is the head of the linguistics department at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband and their children.