ADRIANA TRIGIANI is an award-winning playwright, television writer, and documentary filmmaker. The author of the bestselling Big Stone Gap series and the bestselling novels Very Valentine, Lucia, Lucia, The Queen of the Big Time, and Rococo, she has also written and will direct the big-screen version of her first novel, Big Stone Gap. Viola in Reel Life, the first novel in her new a young adult series debuted in September 2009. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.