Sullivan, M. Alayne: - M. Alayne Sullivan was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She received a Doctorate in English Education from McGill University of Montreal, Canada. In her early and later years, she became fixated by the stories of the fishing village of Herring Cove, Nova Scotia, where many of the men and women in Through the Eyes of a Little Village lived and where the pilot boat disaster depicted in this novel took place. This is her first novel.