ROSEMARY MAHONEY was educated at Harvard College and Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of The Early Arrival of Dreams, a New York Times Notable Book in 1990; Whoredom in Kimmage, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in 1994; A Likely Story: One Summer with Lillian Hellman; and The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground. Mahoney received a Whiting Writers’ Award. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.