Elizabeth Letts

Elizabeth Letts is an American author born on June 23, 1961, in Houston, Texas, who grew up in Southern California as a competitive equestrian and later majored in History at Yale College, served in the Peace Corps in Morocco, and trained as a certified nurse-midwife at Yale School of Nursing.[1][2][4] She began publishing books while raising four children, achieving #1 New York Times bestseller status with works like The Eighty-Dollar Champion and The Perfect Horse, which won the PEN USA Award for Research Nonfiction, alongside novels such as Finding Dorothy and The Ride of Her Life.[1][2][3] She lives in southern California, spends summers in Northern Michigan, and writes women's fiction under the pen name Nora Carroll.[1][2][4]