James Sulzer lives in Nantucket, Massachusetts. A graduate of Yale University, where he was a Yale National Scholar, he is the author of the new mystery ALL THAT SMOLDERS. Other published works include a novel about Emily Dickinson, THE VOICE AT THE DOOR and a novel about John Keats, WRIT IN WATER, as well as the novel NANTUCKET DAYBREAK and a trilogy of middle grade novels for children, THE CARD PEOPLE. He taught elementary and middle school students for 30 years and has produced countless “Sonic id’s” for Public Radio. In his early years on the island, he labored as a commercial scalloper and sang professionally in a barbershop quartet.