Kem Knapp Sawyer is an author who has written everything from travel articles to young adult books. Her work has appeared in the St. Louis Patch Dispatch, the Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Post, Scholastic News, and Cobblestone. Some of her books include biographies of Abigail Adams, Anne Frank, Nelson Mandela, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Lucretia Mott. Sawyer has also written a novel, Freedom Calls: Journey of a Slave Girl.