The document provides background information on Natalie Babbitt, the author of Tuck Everlasting. It discusses her early interest in art and illustration and her eventual career as a writer of children's fantasy novels. It also provides context about Tuck Everlasting, including that it takes place in the 1880s in a small fictional town inspired by places Babbitt lived. The novel explores the idea of immortality through the story of the Tuck family, who have lived forever after drinking from a magical spring.