About the author

Sarah Kennedy

<p>Sarah Kennedy is the author of the novels, Self-Portrait, with Ghost and The Altarpiece, City of Ladies, and The King&#8217;s Sisters, Books One, Two, and Three of The Cross and the Crown series, set in Tudor England. &#160;She has also published seven books of poems. &#160;A professor of English at Mary Baldwin University in Staunton, Virginia, Sarah Kennedy holds a PhD in Renaissance Literature and an MFA in Creative Writing. &#160;She has received grants from both the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. &#160;Please visit Sarah at her website: &#160;http://sarahkennedybooks.com</p>