Leave Well Enough Alone (23 page)

Wells at age twenty-five.

In 2002, while on a research trip for her young adult novel
Red Moon at Sharpsburg
, Wells visited a Civil War reenactment at the Antietam battlefield.

Wells at a children’s bookstore in Portland, Oregon, in October 1985.

Wells with her Westie, Sophie, in 1990.

Wells with her husband, Tom, and their two dogs, in 1991.

Wells in her studio in Greenwich, CT.

Wells’s four granddaughters with her daughter Victoria.

Wells with her granddaughter Frances Wells Arms in 2010.

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