Leslie Hooton is the author of Before Anyone Else and The Secret of Rainy Days. She earned a B.A. and an M.A. from Auburn University and a J.D. from Samford University, has been accepted to the Sewanee Writer's Conference, and has studied with Alice McDermott, Jill McCorkle, and Richard Bausch. Raised in a small Alabama town, she currently resides in Charlotte, North Carolina.
