Vanessa DiffenbaughVanessa Diffenbaugh was born in San Francisco and raised in Chico, California. After studying creative writing and education at Stanford, she went on to teach art and writing to youth in low-income communities. Vanessa and her family live in Cambridg, Massachusetts, where her husband is studying urban school reform at Harvard. Her first novel, The Language of Flowers, was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. Read More Read Less