Lyn Stafford if from Birmingham, Alabama. She served as editor for several publications, including the Alabama Journal of Medical Sciences, the Annals of Saudi Medicine, and the Southern Medical Journal. Today, she is a poet and free-lance writer and editor. Her fascination with local social history grew out of working with many of Birmingham's writers, including the authors of the Italian Americans in the Deep South, the History of Medicine in Alabama, and the Button Gwinnett Papers, whose works she helped bring to press. She loves research, especially the grueling research needed to write cr...