Dotti Enderle is the author of dozens of books for children. She was born in Killeen, Texas on in 1954. Her family moved around a lot. Her book Man in the Moon is based upon her childgood experiences. The character Janine is heavily based upon Enderle. She has lived most of her life in Houston and she still lives there today.
In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; in the second, a man sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world.