Mark Foster

Born: Orlando, Florida, 1961.

Educated: BA in history from the University of Mass/Amherst.

Career: museum exhibit design and architecture, Boston and Cambridge, MA.

Children's Books: Whale Port is our first children's book. We think of it as a different kind of book on whaling, one that uses illustrations and text to tell the story of people, what they did for a living, and their whaling port home over 300 years.

Whale Port is the result of learning more than I ever needed to know about this fascinating topic, then sitting around in a coffee shop talking about it with Gerry. Next thing you know, we had an idea for a book: the history of a fictional whaling port told through bird's eye views of the port showing how it grew and changed. And here it is.