About the Author
Tanya Lee Stone has loved writing about women pushing boundaries in books such as
Elizabeth Leads the Way,
Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors?, The House That Jane Built, Who Says Women Can’t Be Computer Programmers?, and
Pass Go and Collect $200. Her work has received numerous accolades, including a Robert F. Sibert Medal, an NAACP Image Award, NCTE Orbis Pictus Honors, a Bank Street College Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor, and a Jane Addams Children’s Book Award. She lives in Burlington, Vermont. Stone has a PhD in creative writing and runs the writing program at Champlain College. She invites you to visit her online at
tanyastone.com.