Author
Elizabeth Wein
Elizabeth Wein was born in New York, and grew up in England, Jamaica and Pennsylvania. It is her love of flying that partly inspired the idea for Code Name Verity.
Born in New York City in 1964, Elizabeth moved to England when she was three, and Jamaica when she was six. Elizabeth loved Jamaica and as a child was fluent in Jamaican patois; but in 1973 her parents separated, and Elizabeth and her siblings ended up back in the US living with their mother Carol Flocken in Harrisburg, PA. When Carol died in a car accident in 1978, Carol's parents took the children in and raised them.
Elizabeth went to Yale University, spent a work-study year back in England, and then spent seven years getting a PhD in Folklore at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where she held a Javits Fellowship. In 1995 Elizabeth moved to England with new husband Tim, and then to Scotland in 2000.