Fran Hawthorne has spent more than three decades writing award-winning nonfiction, including eight books, mainly about consumer activism and business social responsibility. She has also been writing fiction since age four, and in 2018 her debut novel, The Heirs, was published by Stephen F. Austin State University Press -- and sold out its first printing in two months. In addition, Fran has been an editor or regular contributor for The New York Times, Business Week, Fortune, and many other publications. She is now at work on two new novels and reviews fiction for the New York Journal of Books.