A native New Yorker, Allison Chisolm has lived in Worcester, Mass. -- the city west of Boston known as "the heart of the Commonwealth" -- since the early 1990s. She began her writing and public relations business in 1996. While she has written many news and magazine articles on business, healthcare and education topics, her biography of 19th century Worcester industrialist Charles Hill Morgan is her first full-length book. A Princeton University graduate, she has received awards from professional organizations, the City of Worcester and Worcester Public Schools.