About the author
Susan Brace Lovell earned undergraduate and graduate degrees with honors in English from the University of Michigan; taught high school and college English; co-founded Cadence, a weekly newspaper in East Grand Rapids, Michigan; has written four non-fiction histories; serves as a consultant to The Wege Foundation; and sits on the Grand Rapids Salvation Army’s Advisory Board. She and her husband Dr. F. Raymer Lovell, Jr., have three children, six grandchildren, one naughty Cavalier spaniel named Lucky, and live in Grand Rapids.