Juliana Gray, the author of A Most Extraordinary Pursuit, is a pseudonym for New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams, the author of Cocoa BeachThe Wicked City, A Certain Age, Along the Infinite Sea, Tiny Little Thing, The Secret Life of Violet Grant, A Hundred Summers and Overseas, and coauthor of The Forgotten Room with New York Times bestselling authors Karen White and Lauren Willig.