Laurence Bergreen is an award-winning biographer whose previous titles include Columbus: The Four Voyages , Voyage to Mars: NASA's Search for Life Beyond Earth , Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life , Capone: The Man and the Era , As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin , and James Agee: A Life , each considered the definitive work on its subject. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages worldwide. He has written for many national publications, including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal , and has taught at the New School for Social Research. A graduate of Harvard University, he lives in New York City. Sara Fray was born and raised in New York City. She is a graduate of Columbia University where she studied East Asian Civilization and American History. She was an A&R executive and recording studio owner before she became a freelance editor, historical researcher and writer. Her young adult adaptation of Laurence Bergreen's Magellan: Over The Edge Of The World was a selection of the Junior Library Guild in the fall of 2017 and Amazon's #1 new release in Teen and Young Adult History of Exploration and Discovery.

She and her husband currently reside in New Jersey with their young daughter. For more information and new releases visit SaraFray.com.