Sword Mountain (Swordbird)
Nancy Yi Fan is theNew York Timesbestselling author ofSwordbirdandSword Quest. She appeared onThe Oprah Winfrey Showas one of the World's Smartest Kids and onThe Martha Stewart Show. Nancy spent part of her childhood in China, where she was born in 1993. Birds have been a lifelong passion of hers and provided the inspiration for her novels. She began writing her first novel,Swordbird, when she was eleven years old. Nancy attends Harvard University.