Sally Ryder Brady, writer, teacher, and free-lance editor, is the author of the novel, INSTAR (Doubleday 1976; Ballantine 1977), an illustrated book of adult humor, SWEET MEMORIES (Bloomsbury USA 2006), and two books of non-fiction, A YANKEE CHRISTMAS Featuring Nantucket & A YANKEE CHRISTMAS Featuring Vermont (Yankee Books/Rodale 1992 & 1993) for which she appeared on Oprah. Her short stories and essays have been published in House Beautiful, The Boston Globe, Good Housekeeping, Yankee, Womans Day and other publications, and also appear in three anthologies."