Shirley Jean Roll Tucker is a theatre director and playwright whose works include The Queen of the Shuswap; You're Loving, Kind and True, Jack Boy; The John L. Wilson Story; The Supper Waltz; and Sowing Seeds in Danny, a musical adaptation of Nellie McClung's novel. The Amazing Foot Race of 1921 is her first book of non-fiction. Born and raised in Alberta, Shirley now lives on a heritage farm in the Shuswap region of British Columbia.