A writer for most of her life, Sharon Sobel is the author of several novels, short stories and works of fiction. Earning a PhD in English Language and Literature from Brandeis University, she is currently a professor of English at Norwalk Community College in Connecticut. Traveling for business and pleasure with her husband and three children, she has researched throughout the world for her writing. Though a native New Yorker, she lives with her family in an eighteenth century Connecticut farmhouse, surrounded by stone walls, old plantings and overgrown meadows. Her computer, surrounded by antiques, is rarely off. Family Protrait was one of Sharon's first romance novels. The Lady Violet Stratfield seemed comfortably, joyfully, middle-aged to Sharon when she wrote the book -- now somehow, the lady has become marvelously youthful and very wise.