MARY MCGARRY MORRIS is the author of "Vanished", nominated for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award; "A Dangerous Woman", chosen by "Time" magazine as one the "Five Best Novels of the Year" and made into a major motion picture; and "Songs in Ordinary Time", an Oprah Book Club selection and a CBS television movie; and the critically acclaimed "A Hole in the Universe". She lives in Massachusetts.