Avi Gil was the head of the Literature Department in the Israeli Ministry of Culture’s Council for Culture and Art, as well as a board member. He has previously written two children’s books – “The Donkey Who Wanted to Be a Car” and “When Buzhika and Grandma Came to Visit”, and a novel entitled “And Nothing Rhymes with Death”, all of which achieved high success in Israel. He is married and a father of three. Avi likes to travel the world while conducting research for his books. While writing “The Caregiver Secret”, he traveled especially to Lithuania, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives.