Mara Rockliff

Mara Rockliff is the author of many well-loved books for children. Her newest picture book is ALL AT ONCE UPON A TIME, about which Booklist warns, "Be prepared for this amusing storytime selection to be requested over and over."

Among her best-known titles are MESMERIZED: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery that Baffled All of France, winner of the Cook Prize and an Orbis Pictus Honor; AROUND AMERICA TO WIN THE VOTE: Two Suffragists, a Kitten, and 10,000 Miles, distributed to schools and libraries across the country by the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission; and SWEET JUSTICE: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which in 2023 received a Sibert Honor from the American Library Association.

Under the pen name Lewis B. Montgomery, she also wrote all twelve books in the popular Milo & Jazz Mysteries chapter book series, which has been translated into Spanish, French, Turkish, and Chinese.

Rockliff lives in Western Massachusetts.