Lynda Mullaly Hunt was born in 1960 in the small town in Tennessee. She graduate high school and went off to college. She then graduated college and went to teach fifth grade. While she taught fifth grade she made a book about her fifth grade class, which is a comedy book about everything funny that happened during their time together. During one of her interview Hunt was asked how she came up with the character, Michael Eric, she replied "I didn't." She didn't plagiarize anyone, however, she didn't invent him. Michael Eric was the name of her four year old brother. Michael Eric sadly passed away at the age of four when Hunt was growing up. "I wanted to remember him for the happiness he brought me," she replied "so when I started writing this book I thought back to the Michael Eric and what he did. The character is surrounded on how I remember him, and I thought the whole world should know someone like him." Lunda Mullaly Hunt has won the Tassy Walden Awards for New Voices in Children's Literature for her work with "One for the Murphys." Since then she has written another book titled "Fish in a Tree" that was recently published on February 5, 2015. She is a very impressive author for winning awards, and publishing the first two books she has written within the past three years.