Margaret Lovell-Smith is a Christchurch writer who has previously published on the nineteenth-century women’s movement in Canterbury, women’s biography, local and regional history. She was the lead researcher and writer for the ‘Voices Against War’ website launched in 2016, a project which led eventually to this book. Her previous books include the edited anthology 'The Woman Question: Writings by the women who won the vote' (1992), 'The Enigma of Sister Mary Leo: The story behind New Zealand's most famous singing teacher' (1998), 'Hurunui Heritage: The development of a district, 1950–2000' (2000), and 'Easily the Best: The life of Helen Connon, 1857–1903' (2004).