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About the Author: Austen Alliance
Linda Dennery served as publisher of New Jersey's Star-Ledger, president of the New Orleans Times-Picayune and Executive Vice-President of the Advance Newspaper Group. She has served on numerous community and professional boards related to newspaper publishing and the health care industry.

Here are the bios of the other 4 contributors - the 5 of us are authors as well as the editors of the book:

Gene Gill is a former public service executive with a lifelong commitment to advocacy for live theater. She has served on governmental arts committees, boards of non-profit theaters, and as a board member and officer of the Theater Development Fund.

Bill McCay is the former editor-in-chief of Mega-Books, with numerous works published in both fiction and non-fiction. Two of his novels have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list.

Linda Pedro is a former development director at New York City Ballet and marketing executive at Hachette Filipacchi Magazines.

Rosemarie Santini is a published poet, journalist, and novelist whose articles and fiction have appeared in major media outlets. Ms. Santini has taught Creative Writing at The New School for more than a decade.

All are members of the Jane Austen Society of North America.
A Look Behind the Curtain...

For lovers of Pride and Prejudice, the characters are like old friends. Everyone knows the who and the what of the cherished tale, but WHAT JANE AUSTEN DIDN'T TELL US! fills in the how, why -- and especially the when.

For instance, why would Mr. Bennet marry such a foolish woman?
And how did his daughter Lizzy develop such a fierce independent streak?

Seventeen dramatic portraits take us into the lives of the story's beloved figures before they enter the pages of the novel. Triumphs and follies, victories and social disasters, the characters' pasts reveal hidden secrets, unexpected intersections, and new motivations for all the goings-on from Longhorn to Pemberley -- and all places in between.