Jeanne DuPrau is the author of The City Of Ember. She spends many hours a day on the computer writing, although this is her first novel. When she was younger she didn't want to be an author. She doesn't know if she would write more books. Jeanne says that she is a slow writer so it would most likely be long time. Jeanne got the idea for the book City Of Ember thinking back to her childhood. Jeanne loves writing and hopes that you may take a liking to writing soon, too.