Gale Eaton

GALE EATON (Wakefield, RI) has spent a lifetime with books for children and young adults, first as a children's librarian at the Boston Public Library and the Berkshire Athenaeum, and later as a professor of children's literature at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. She is the author of three other books including A History of Civilization in 50 Disasters.