Sarah Marwil Lamstein: Hello, my name is Sarah Marwell Lamstein. Through my growing up years my name was different. It was Sarah Zevell Marwell. My first name has never changed. I've always been Sarah. But my middle name and my last name have changed. When I got married, I took my husband's last name as my own, Lamstein. Then when I started writing books, I changed my middle name to Marwell, which was my last name all the while I was growing up.

I made Marwell my middle name to honor my parents. They owned bookstores in Detroit, Michigan and filled our house with books. My three brothers, my sister and I, all loved to read and still do.