BEATRIZ WILLIAMS is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of Husbands & Lovers: A Novel, Under the Stars: A Novel, and many other books, including four novels in collaboration with bestselling authors Karen White and Lauren Willig. A graduate of Stanford University with an MBA in finance from Columbia University, Williams has won numerous awards for her fiction, which has been translated into more than a dozen languages. She lives near the Connecticut shore with her husband and four children.