Victoria GriffithVictoria Griffith is the author of the award winning non-fiction picture book `The Fabulous Flying Machines of Alberto Santos-Dumont’, which won numerous awards, including the prestigious `Parents’ Choice’. Before becoming a full-time author, Vicoria spent twenty years as an international journalist, fifteen of which were as a foreign correspondent for the UK’s Financial Times. During that time, in which she served as the newspaper’s US science correspondent, followed by a stint as its’ representative in Brazil, she covered a wide range of topics, including architecture, space exploration, the human genome, the growth of the Internet, and Brazil’s Yanomami Indians. Environmental issues also featured and she spent some time in the Amazon rain forest. She even managed to fit in some children’s book reviews. Victoria currently resides in Boston with her husband and three daughters. Read More Read Less