Jane Isay has been an editor for over forty years. She discovered Mary Pipher's "Reviving Ophelia," commissioned Patricia O'Connor's bestselling "Woe Is I" and Rachel Simmons' "Odd Girl Out," and edited such nonfiction classics as "Praying for Sheetrock" and "Friday Night Lights." She lives in New York City, not too far from her grown children and grandchild.