Elena GrafAward-winning novelist Elena Graf has been scribbling stories since high school. Her first novel, Occasions of Sin, was published in 2012. Graf considers herself primarily a historical novelist, but her contemporary Hobbs series, set in a small town n Maine, has introduced her work to many new readers. The four historical novels in the Passing Rites series, are set in Europe in the early 20th century and show how a noble family dealt with the momentous changes of the period. Lies of Omission, the third volume in the Passing Rites Series, won a Golden Crown Literary Society award for best historical fiction and a Rainbow Award. The fourth volume, Acts of Contrition also won a Goldie and a Rainbow Award.The author pursued a Ph.D. in philosophy but ended up in the "accidental profession" of publishing, where she worked for almost four decades. She lives with her wife in coastal Maine. Read More Read Less