CATHIE PELLETIER is the author of fifteen books, including The Funeral Makers (a New York Times Notable Book), The Weight of Winter (winner of the New England Book Award) and Running the Bulls (winner of the Paterson Prize for Fiction). Two of her novels as K. C. McKinnon became TV films. She co-wrote Proving Einstein Right with National Medal of Science recipient, physicist S. James Gates. Her most recent book is Northeaster. She lives in Allagash, Maine, in the family homestead where she was born.