About the Author
Lisa Graff is the author of many award-winning novels, including
The Thing About Georgie, Umbrella Summer, Absolutely Almost, Lost in the Sun, and
A Tangle of Knots, which was nominated for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. A graduate of UCLA and a recipient of an MFA in Creative Writing for Children from The New School, Lisa also spent five years as an editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux Books for Young Readers. She now lives with her family outside Philadelphia, and she invites you to visit her online at
lisagraff.com.
