Judith Harris is the author of Pompeii Awakened: A Story of Rediscovery (London: I.B. Tauris, 2007, 2014), and The Monster in the Closet (Franklin, Tenn.: American History Imprints, 2012). As a freelance American journalist based in Rome, she has been a regular contributor to ARTnews, Current Archaeology, Time, Wall Street Journal and the online magazine i-italy.org. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, she is a graduate of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.