Carrie Brown

Carrie Brown's latest novel is The Stargazer's Sister. From her Q & A with Deborah Kalb:Q: Why did you decide to write a novel about Caroline Herschel, and what did you see as the right balance between the historic and the fictional? A: My introduction to the Herschels, born 12 years apart in the late 1700s in what is now northern Germany, came in the most glancing way: a three-minute radio