Mary McNearMary McNear, the author of the Butternut Lake series, writes in a local doughnut shop, where she sips Diet Pepsi, observes the hubbub of neighborhood life, and tries to resist the constant temptation of freshly made doughnuts. Mary bases her novels o a lifetime of summers spent in a small town on a lake in the northern Midwest. She lives in San Francisco with her family. Read More Read Less