ALLEGRA HUSTON was born in London and raised in Ireland, Long Island, and Los Angeles. She has worked with Chatto & Windus publishers in London and Weidenfeld & Nicolson, where she was Editorial Director from 1990 to 1994. A freelance writer and editor for more than ten years, her work has appeared in "The Times", the "Independent", the "Tatler", and "Harper's Bazaar" (all in the UK), in French "Vogue", and in the U.S. in "People" magazine, the "Santa Fean", and "Mothering". She lives in Taos, New Mexico, with her six-year-old son, Rafa, and his father, Cisco Guevara.