J. A. Harbison

I have always felt that there is a book in every person that I have ever met, and I have never been disappointed. This conviction has served me well in my 35 years of designing and directing humanitarian programs in Asia, the Middle East and east and west Africa. This is why it seemed like the most logical thing I could do was to write a novel about a precocious little girl in a small village near what was then Madras, India. After spending what amounted to weeks and months of time in personal interviews with Sheba, her parents, friends and community members I felt I had the material to tell her story, Sheba's Song.