About the Author

A native of Kent, England, Dianne Graves studied languages before embarking on a public relations career in the fields of international education and travel. She began writing some sixteen years ago and is also the author of In the Midst of Alarms: The Untold Story of Women and the War of 1812and Red-coats and River Pirates: Sam and Ellens Adventure at the Windmill, an historical novel for young readers set on the St. Lawrence River in the 1830s. Dianne Graves has acted as a consultant on a number of projects, including the CBC documentary series A Peoples History of Canada,and has appeared in several documentary films, notably John McCraes War. She continues to research and write and lives in a 19th-century farmhouse in the scenic Mississippi River Valley of eastern Ontario with her husband, Canadian military historian Donald E. Graves.