author : Nina Darntonwebsite : https://www.facebook.com/NinaDarntonBooks/facebook : https://www.facebook.com/NinaDarntonBooks/NINA DARNTON is the author of the critically acclaimed novels An African Affair and The Perfect Mother as well as Risking It All. She has written for The New York Times, Elle, House and Garden, Travel and Leisure, the New York Post, and Newsweek. She has a BA from the University of Wisconsin, an MS in Psychology from the New School of Social Research, and an MFA from Columbia University. Nina and her husband John Darnton have three children and four grandchildren and live in New York City and New Paltz, New York.