Jean Grant

Canadian-born, Jean Grant worked twenty years in the Middle East. She taught first at the American University of Beirut, and when the Lebanese Civil war began, she evacuated to a French village. Later she worked as a teacher and a journalist in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Her first novel, The Burning Veil, set in Saudi Arabia, was a finalist for Foreword Reviews Book of the Year, and her second, Flight,for this year's Independent Book Publisher Award. She lives most of the year in Lawrence, Kansas, and spends her summers in France.