Vesper Stamper

Vesper Stamper is an award-winning author-illustrator of picture books and historical fiction for young adults, including What the Night Sings, winner of the Sydney Taylor Book Award and long-listed for the National Book Award, and A Cloud of Outrageous Blue. She lives with her husband, filmmaker Ben Stamper, and her two teenagers, in the northeastern United States, but England is Vesper's happy place. Her favorite Jane Austen novel is Emma.

From the dust jacket of A Most Clever Girl

Vesper Stamper was born in Nuremberg, Germany, and raised in New York City. Her family was an eclectic mix of engineers, musicians, and artists, who didn't thing Voltaire too tough for bedtime reading, Chopin Valses too loud for wake-up calls, or precision slide rules too fragile for playthings. She writes and illustrates at her grandfather's old drafting table, in the pine woods of the Northeast where she lives with her husband and children. Follow her on Twitter at @vesperillustrat and learn more at vesperillustration.comFrom the dust jacket of What the Night Sings