Patti Callahan Henry is the New York Times, USA Today, and Globe and Mail bestselling author of sixteen novels. She is the recipient of the Christy Award for Book of the Year, the Harper Lee Award for Distinguished Writer of the Year, and the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year award. She is the cohost and cocreator of the popular weekly online Friends and Fiction live web series and podcast. Patti is also a contributor to the monthly life lesson essay column for Parade magazine. A full-time author and mother of three, she lives in Mountain Brook, Alabama, and Bluffton, South Carolina, with her family.