Cherie Burns is the author of Diving for Starfish—The Jeweler, The Actress, The Heiress and One of the World’s Most Alluring Pieces of Jewelry (St. Martin’s Press, 2018.) Her previous book, the biography Searching for Beauty—The Life of Millicent Rogers, the American Heiress Who Taught the World About Style was published by St. Martin’s Griffin Press in October of 2012. Burns’s earlier books are The Great Hurricane: 1938, (Grove/Atlantic, 2005) and Stepmotherhood—How to Survive Without Feeling Frustrated, Left Out or Wicked (Times Books, 1986). Burns has been a feature journalist since 1975.