Debra Green has always been drawn to good sto­ry­telling, espe­cial­ly his­tor­i­cal nov­els and Broad­way musi­cals. A grad­u­ate of Rut­gers Uni­ver­si­ty and Colum­bia University’s Mail­man School of Pub­lic Health, she lives with her hus­band, David, in Scotch Plains, New Jer­sey. She is also the author of The Con­ven­tion of Wives.