Carol Wallace

Carol Wallace co-authored the bestselling The Official Preppy Handbook. Since then she has written nineteen more books and dozens of magazine articles. Her areas of specialty have been humor, social history, parenting and fiction. In 2006 she earned a masters in art history from Columbia University. Her MA thesis was the basis for her historical novel, Leaving Van Gogh, published in April 2011. She has recently completed the manuscript for a new historical novel, Madame Manet. Carol lives in New York City with her husband and two children. She authors the blog, Book Group of One, to justify her ten-book-a-month reading habit. Read more at http://carolwallace.wordpress.com/