Michelle Young is an award-winning journalist, author, and professor whose writing on looted and lost art has appeared in Hyperallergic, The Forward, and The Wilson Quarterly. She is a graduate of Harvard College in the History of Art and Architecture and holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she is a professor of architecture. She is also a scholar in the New York Public Library’s Allen Room and the founder of the publication Untapped New York. Michelle appears regularly in documentaries by Netflix, National Geographic, The History Channel, Smithsonian, PBS and more, and her work has been published additionally in Narratively, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Curbed, and Metropolis Magazine. She divides her time between New York City and Paris.

Suzanne Nelson is the award-winning author of dozens of middle grade novels, including You’re Bacon Me Crazy, which was adapted into a romantic comedy movie for the Hallmark Channel. Her YA novel, Serendipity’s Footsteps, was a Sydney Taylor Honor Book. She has written articles about parenting for The Washington Post, and teaches writing workshops for adults and children. She loves reading and writing historical fiction and traveling for inspiration and research. She spent eight years as a children’s book editor in New York City before turning to writing full time. She now lives with her family in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The Librarians of Lisbon is her adult fiction debut. You can follow Suzanne on Instagram, TikTok or Facebook @suzannenelsonbooks or find her at suzannenelson.com.