Andrea Barnet is the author of a previous book, All-Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930, which was a nonfiction finalist for the 2004 Lambda Literary Awards. She was a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review for twenty-five years, and her journalism has appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, the New York Times, Self, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Mirabella and Working Mother, among other venues. She splits her time between the Hudson Valley and New York City, where she lives with her husband, the painter Kit White.