About the Author

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Fiorella De Maria, an Anglo-Maltese writer living in Surrey, England, studied English Literature at the University of Cambridge. A winner of the National Book Prize of Malta, she has published numerous books with Ignatius Press, including these other titles for youth--Hugh O'Flaherty: The Irish Priest Who Resisted the Nazis; Saint Maximilian Kolbe: A Hero of the Holocaust; and My Family and Other Skaters.