Kimberly Brubaker Bradley is the author of several middle grade novels including the widely acclaimed Fighting Words and Jefferson’s Sons and the New York Times bestsellers The War I Finally Won and The War That Saved My Life which also earned a Newbery Honor and a Schneider Award. She and her husband have two grown children and live with their dog several ponies a highly opinionated mare and a surplus of cats on a fifty-two acre farm in Bristol Tennessee.