Lyn­da Cohen Loigman is the author of The Matchmaker’s Gift, The Wartime Sis­ters, and The Two-Fam­i­ly House. She received a B.A. in Eng­lish and Amer­i­can Lit­er­a­ture from Har­vard Col­lege and a J.D. from Colum­bia Law School. She grew up in Long­mead­ow, MA, and now lives in New York.