Nancy Byrd Turner is a New York Times bestselling author of popular novels and non-fiction. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, she has been a journalist for more than thirty years. Her many awards include the Colorado Award for Fiction (awarded twice, once as an Emerging Writer and once as a Colorado resident), an American Book Award, and finalist status in the Colorado Book Awards three times. A former Colorado resident, she now lives in New York City with her husband and their two children.
The Bookshop has a thousand books, All colors, hues, and tinges, And every cover is a door That turns on magic hinges.Nancy Byrd Turner
The trouble is, we are incurable sentimentalists. We insist on makin over historical characters to suit our preconceived notions of what they should be, chipping, sandpapering, and polishing each personality until it assumes what we consider the proper contour and color.Nancy Byrd Turner
