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Sarah L. Thomson is the author of two previous novels for young readers. The Dragon's Son, a retelling of the King Arthur story, was a Junior Library Guild selection and was chosen as one of the Best Books of the Year by the Bank Street College of Education. The Washington Post described The Manny, a comedy about a boy nanny, as having "a plot worthy of Jane Austen." Sarah Thomson managed to graduate as an English major without ever taking a class on Shakespeare (or Marlowe, for that matter), but she did travel to London to research The Secret of the Rose, visiting the reconstructed Globe Theatre. A former editor with a major children's book publisher, she lives in Portland, Maine.