Pamela R. Winnick, an award-winning journalist, is a graduate of Columbia University Schools of Journalism and Law. A former reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, her articles have appeared in such national outlets of the Wall Street Journal. Her short stories have been published in a variety of literary journals. The seeds of this novel were planted when her father told her that Jews fought in the American Revolution. She was only six, but never forgot it. She lives in Pittsburgh, PA.