Virginia Wright-Peterson is an author and educator with a special interest in untold stories, especially women's history and the history of Mayo Clinic. She brings personal experience to this book, having worked in Mayo Clinic administration in Jacksonville, Fla. when the campus opened. This is her fourth book of historical nonfiction. All three previous books, including Women of Mayo Clinic: The Founding Generation, were finalists for a Minnesota Book Award in the Minnesota Nonfiction category. Wright-Peterson lives in Minnesota.