Nancy Thorndike Greenspan has a BA in economics from Mount Holyoke College and a MA in economics from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. She has co-authored three books and numerous articles with her husband, child psychiatrist Stanley Greenspan, and has published in the fields of economics and the environment. For this biography, she spent four years gathering, translating, and cataloguing documents from archives around the world. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland.