Jacquelyn Mitchard
<p><em>New York Times</em> bestseller Jacquelyn Mitchard's novels include <em>The Deep End of the Ocean</em>, <em>Twelve Times Blessed</em>, and <em>The Breakdown Lane</em>. She is also the author of <em>The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship</em>, a collection of her newspaper columns. She lives with her husband and six children in Madison, Wisconsin. </p>