Frommer's EasyGuide to Rhode Island

Barbara Radcliffe Rogers is a travel writer and guidebook author specializing in Europe and eastern United States and Canada. She is co-author of seven guidebooks to Italy, three to Spain and several others covering European cities, Atlantic Canada and New England. She writes regularly for Global Traveler Magazine, where she has also served as News Editor, and for several other magazines, newspapers and websites. Her taste for travel began when she moved to Verona, Italy, soon after completing her degree at Boston University, and she has since traveled to every country in Western Europe, and much of Eastern Europe and Latin America. Barbara currently lives in New Hampshire, and spends a good part of each year in Europe. Wherever she is, she's likely to be skiing in the winter and kayaking in the summer and discovering new flavors for her blog, Worldbite. Kim Knox Beckius is a Connecticut-based writer and photographer whose passion for New England inspires everything she does, whether it's riding a giant inflatable lobster in her wedding gown, naming her daughter so she shares initials with L.L. Bean or sending free fall leaves in the mail to autumn lovers around the world. She's the author of six books on Northeast travel, including New England's Historic Homes & Gardens, and has been the voice of New England travel for About.com since 1998. She is a full time contributor to Yankee Magazine. She lives in the Hartford area.