A good story warms your heart, challenges your imagination, and inspires your spirit. It can be read over and over, passed from generation to generation, without losing its charm. And when the last page is read you are satisfied, yet left wanting to read more. More by the same author. Perhaps more about the author.

To know about the life of an author adds to the understanding and appreciation of his or her work. In this collection of short biographies Jane Stuart Smith and Betty Carlson explore the lives of some of their--and the world's--favorite women authors. Great writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Amy Carmichael, Beatrix Potter, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Christian or non-Christian, they are women who have influenced the world through their lives and their literature. And whose classic works still affect our lives today.

Words from their pens have stirred your heart before. Now learn the stories that started it all.