SAMANTHA WALLACE grew up in Ottawa, Ontario, and Long Lake, Quebec. She had a successful career as a model, appearing on the cover of Vogue and other magazines and worked with the great photographers of her time, notably Avedon and Penn. In the summer of 1973, she began to practice Transcendental Meditation. Devoted to her family and to her practice of meditation, Samantha helps write and edit her husband's books, and is presently finishing her own book, Creating Beauty.