Danielle Ganek

After graduating with a Bachelor's degree in English literature, she went to New York to write. She was living with aspiring actresses and eventually got a job as creative director at Lafayette's in the city, while continuing to practice writing. Then she married David Ganek, founder of Level Global Investors and took a break from working when she had her first child to "focus on writing and being a mother." Now she's back! She just wrote a novel, "The Summer We Read Gatsby," which narrates the story of two sisters who inherit a house in the Hamptons. She spent most of her childhood in Brazil and Switzerland and started writing early, according to her Web site.