Elizabeth Wein has lived in Scotland for over ten years and wrote nearly all her novels there. Her first five books for young adults are set in Arthurian Britain and sixth century Ethiopia. The most recent of these form the sequence The Mark of Solomon, published in two parts as The Lion Hunter (2007) and The Empty Kingdom (2008). The Lion Hunter was short-listed for the Andre Norton Award for Best Young Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction in 2008. Elizabeth also writes short stories.She met her future husband there at a bell ringers' dinner-dance. Tim is English, and in 1995 Elizabeth moved to England with him, and then to Scotland in 2000.Elizabeth and Tim share another unusual interest - flying. Tim got his private pilot's license in 1993 and Elizabeth got hers ten years later. Together they have flown in the States from Kalamazoo to New Hampshire; in Kenya they've toured from Nairobi to Malindi, on the coast, and also all over southern England. Alone, most of Elizabeth's flying has been in eastern Scotland. Her interest in flying is what sparked the idea for Code Name Verity.Elizabeth and Tim have two children.