Hannah Howell

Born in 1950 in Massachusetts was a girl called Hannah Dustin Howell. She would grow up to become a stay at home mom and later on a writer. She also writes under the pen names Sarah Dustin, Anna Jennet and Sandra Dustin. She puts all her novels in the setting of medieval Scotland. Howell’s ancestral links are believed to be with the first American colonists. Her maternal ancestors settled in Massachusetts in the 1630s which is where she grew up (in New England to be specific). Her paternal side is half English and half Nova Scotian.