Caroline Ledlie

Born in Atlanta and educated there, in Washington DC, and in New Zealand, Caroline Seton Ledlie has won critical acclaim, popular affection, and serious prizes for her fiction.

She runs a national service program in support of troubled children on a 1,200-acre campus in west Georgia and serves as an editorial consultant to a foundation associated with the world's leading global health agency. (She also occasionally just plain runs, usually with her bulldog-boxer dog, Bear, in vales and on hills along the red-clay banks of the Chattahoochee.)