Gay Courter is the author of five bestselling historical novels, with over three million copies in print, and I Speak for This Child: True Stories of a Child Advocate. Gay did research for The Girl in the Box, a medical mystery set on a cruise ship, aboard the Diamond Princess in 2017.
Phil Courter (photographer), Gay’s husband, is an Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, author of The Filmmaker’s Craft, and designer/builder of innovative film devices. Now semi-retired, he designs and builds musical instruments, furniture, and sculptures. He’s also a bluegrass musician.
Sarah Flynn (editor) was at Houghton Mifflin in Boston when she worked with Gay on her first three novels. An independent editor since the late 1980s, she is also co-author of Voices of Freedom, a companion volume to the Emmy-winning documentary series Eyes on the Prize.