Allia Zobel Nolan is an internationally – published author specializing in children's religious and trade books, and adult humor. She has over 2 1/2 million books in print. She presently works as Senior Editor, Relgious Books for Reader’s Digest Children's Books. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, McCall's,The Los Angeles Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Cork (Ireland) Examiner, among other places. She lives and worries with her husband, Desmond, and their three cats in Norwalk, Connecticut and Tipperary, Ireland.