Bonnar Spring learned to read in kindergarten and never stopped. The restrictive policy of her town library (What? Only fourteen books per card?) led her to become omnivorous—her brothers’ science fiction and adventure, her mother’s classics, her father’s, well, those books hidden behind the hardcovers on the top shelf. An inveterate traveler, she hitchhiked across Europe at sixteen and joined the Peace Corps after college. She teaches ESL at a community college. She’d do it for free, but is pleased they pay her—and long school vacations mean leisurely travels.