found: Wikipedia, February 15, 2017(Sabaa Tahir; Sabaa Tahir is an American young-adult fiction writer, who is best known for her 2015 New York Times bestselling novel An Ember in the Ashes, as well as her recently released 2016 novel A Torch Against the Night; she was formerly a Washington Post editor who has published her recent work through Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House; Tahir grew up in the Mojave Desert where her parents owned a small motel; she attended UCLA, during which time she interned at the Washington Post; she took a job at the Post after graduation; she now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area)
