Carol Bundy

CAROL BUNDY was born in Washington, DC and graduated Yale in 1980 as a Scholar of the House specializing in nineteenth century American history and literature. She became interested in her great-great-great uncle, Charles Russell Lowell, when his worn saddle bags, rusted sword and spurs turned up after her grandmother’s death in 1983. The Nature of Sacrifice is her first book. It was a finalist for the Lincoln Prize, received an award from the Boston Authors Club and the American Association of State and Local History. She now lives with her two sons in Cambridge, Mass. and is currently completing a fellowship at the Massachusetts Historical Society where she is researching another book about the Civil War.