ABOUT ELIZABETH Elizabeth Letts grew up in California. As a child, she loved books and horses, and dreamed of growing up to write books about horses like her idol Marguerite Henry. In her teens, she was a competitive equestrian three-day eventer. She attended Yale College where she majored in History. After graduating from college, she joined the Peace Corps, and served for three years in Morocco where she taught English in a date palm oasis in the northern Sahara desert. She then entered the Yale School of Nursing where she trained as a certified nurse-midwife. She currently lives with her husband and four children in southeastern Pennsylvania where she divides her time between writing, and working as a midwife in a women's health clinic.   Read an essay by Elizabeth called My Life in Books.   Read about how Elizabeth manages real life and writing (PDF format).   Read an interview with Elizabeth at Peace Corps Writers.