Heather Ball is a professional writer and editor. She has written three other books in the Women’s Hall of Fame Series: Remarkable Women Writers, Magnificent Women in Music, and Great Women Leaders, which was named an American Library Association Amelia Bloomer Project Recommended Read for 2005. She is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers in Toronto, and in 2003 she was named Centennial College’s first-ever Writer of the Year. She lives and works in Toronto.