Linda Bailey is the author of nearly forty books for children. Mary Who Wrote Frankenstein was cited as a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, the Globe and Mail, the New York Public Library, CBC, and Booklist, among others. In addition to these, Bailey has been awarded the Blue Spruce Award, the Silver Birch Award the Shining Willow Award (twice), the BC Chocolate Lily Award (five times), the Red Cedar Award, the California Young Reader Medal, the Georgia Storybook Award, the Christie Harris Award, the Hackmatack Award, and the Arthur Ellis Award (twice). She lives in Vancouver.