Elizabeth Dowling Taylor

Elizabeth Dowling Taylor is the New York Times bestselling author of A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons. She received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley, and over her twnty-two-year career in museum education and research has held the positions of director of interpretation at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and director of education at James Madison's Montpelier. She is now an independent scholar and lecturer and a fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities in Charlottesville.