Kate Whouley is the author of two critically acclaimed memoirs: Cottage for Sale, Must Be Moved, a BookSense Book of the Year finalist that was recently released in a 20th anniversary edition, and Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words, winner of the 2012 New England Book Award in nonfiction. She directs the MFA program in creative writing at Bay Path University and serves as a contributing editor at Yankee magazine. An avocational musician, Kate traces the inspiration for her debut novel, The Maestro and Her Protégé, to a long-ago freshman music theory class taught by a demanding professor who was once a student of the famous and famously formidable musical master Mademoiselle Nadia Boulanger.