Kaui Hart Hemmings has degrees from Colorado College and Sarah Lawrence, and she was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her first novel, a New York Times bestseller, "The Descendants," has been published in twenty-two other countries and is an Oscar-winning film directed by Alexander Payne and starring George Clooney. She is also the author of a story collection "House of Thieves," the novels "How to Party with an Infant" and "The Possibilities," and the YA novel "Juniors." She lives in Hawaii.