Sharon M. Hannon

Sharon M. Hannon has focused on her lifelong interests - history, the arts, and people who live outside of mainstream society - in the books and websites she has written and produced for the Library of Congress, PBS, and others. Her first book, "Women Explorers," was published in 2007 as part of the Library of Congress' Women Who Dare series. Her next book, "Punks: A Guide to an American Subculture," was published in 2009. She has also written about spies and secret agents, World War II, the American Revolution, and life in the Americas after the Spanish conquest. Most recently she revised a guidebook to the Library of Congress, "The Nation's Library," which was published in 2012.

Sharon grew up in Annapolis, Maryland and eventually settled in Washington, D.C., where she now lives and writes. She is an avid traveler and hiker and finds inspiration in the people, music, and mountains she encounters around the world.