Ellyn BacheEllyn Bache is the award-winning author of nine novels (including Safe Passage, which was made into a movie starring Susan Sarandon), and two short story collections, The Value of Kindness, that received the Willa Cather Fiction Prize, and Kaleidoscoe, that celebrates women's magazine fiction. She is also co-author of the book of the musical comedy, Writers Bloc, and has written several other plays. She was born and raised in Washington, DC, but spent part of her college years in the South and now has lived in the Carolinas for more than 30 years, where in addition to writing, she has taught fiction-writing seminars and critiqued manuscripts for the North Carolina Writers Network.. She has four grown children and 15 grandchildren. More information is on her website, www.ellynbache.com Read More Read Less