Carol Eron Rizzoli

About the Author

Carol Eron Rizzoli first visited the Chesapeake Bay to interview James Michener as he was starting work on his epic novel Chesapeake. She taught at Boston University, served as book editor for the Washington Post, and was a managing editor of publications for the National Gallery of Art in Washington,D.C. Her articles, reviews, essays, and profiles have appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, the Washington Post, Readers Digest, The International Herald-Tribune, The St Louis Post-Dispatch, the Boston Globe, and many other publications. She and her husband run Royal Oak House (royaloakhouse.org) on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay.