Ellen Kingman FisherDr. Fisher was a senior program officer with the Gates Family Foundation and the Director of the Molly Brown House Museum in Denver. She served on the board of the Colorado State Historical Society (now History Colorado) for 28 years and on the Advisry Board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation for nine years. Historic Denver gave her the Molly Brown Spirit Award for community service. Similarly, the University of Colorado at Denver gave her the Alumni Recognition Award for her role in developing the public history (applied history) program at CU Denver. Her publications include Junior League: Leaders in Community Service 1918-1993, "Power's Dynamo Unloosed: Henry L. Doherty and the Denver Gas and Electric Company," and One Hundred Years of Energy, Public Service Company of Colorado. Hill's Gold, her first novel, was awarded first place in historical fiction by the Colorado Independent Publishers Association and was a finalist in the Colorado Authors League awards. The Price of a Contract is the second historical fiction in a series about business entrepreneurs in the American West and won a CIPA bronze award. The Ring of a Bell, a novel about the coming of age, women's rights, and the early development of the telephone, published in 2024. The author has spent most of her life in Colorado enjoying the outdoors, including climbing all of Colorado's fourteeners, Mt. Rainier, and Kilimanjaro. She and her husband have three grown children and four grandsons. Read More Read Less