Gary Brin was born in 1965 and has lived in the United States Virgin Islands, Hawaii and California. He has edited numerous original literary works over the years-both new and revised. In 2019 he established Standish Press to bring forth interesting fictional and historical material usually ignored by mainstream publishers because of specific views or content. In addition to publishing books, he also created the Nancy Hanks Lincoln Public Library (named after the mother of Abraham Lincoln) in 2014 to make available hard-to-find books to a worldwide audience. Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye was a writer and biographer. She was born in December 1858 in Minnesota and died in November 1923 in Pennsylvania. Seelye was the daughter of well-known historian and novelist Edward Eggleston. She married Elwyn Seelye, founder of the New York State Historical Association in 1877. In addition to her biography of Pocahontas, Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye also wrote several other biographies on historical figures and was featured in popular magazines such as Harper's Bazaar over the years. Jean Christie Root was a dedicated historian and biographer of several well-known individuals.