Bonnie Stepenoff grew up in the hills of northeastern Pennsylvania in the 1950s and 1960s, and now she lives in the hills of Missouri. She has a passion for historic preservation, and she likes to write about ordinary people and their history. Her most recent book is about the boys who worked, played, and slept in the streets of St. Louis from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. She has also written about girls who worked in silk mills in Pennsylvania.
