Jacob and Mary Landess belonged to a Plain people group known as the Dutch Quakers. Wanda also wanted to find out more about the Amish culture when she found out that her great-great-great grandparents were Anabaptist. She finds their lifestyle to be very different from the often chaos-filled lives that so many English (non-Amish) people lead. What she likes about the Amish is that they have a genuine want to live a devout life where they honor God, have close families, and work hard. Through her travels, she and Richard have met many different Amish individuals all over America and have become close friends with many of them. She met her new sisters-in-law and being exposed to the Mennonite ways caused her to want the simpler life. He grew up in the Mennonite church and has a family that has a heritage of being Pennsylvania Dutch. Her interest in the Amish culture first developed when she met Richard, her husband. Whenever she visits her friends who is Amish, she always appreciates their peaceful lifestyle, close family relationships, and sincerity. She has many Amish friends who read her books and trust her, many of them giving her credit for giving her readers a more in-depth understanding of the Amish and their customs. Wanda intentionally did her own exhaustive research so that she could accurately show the Amish way of life. She has had ancestors that were Anabaptist, but her books are more based on the research that she has done. Wanda is one of the first writers to found the genre of Amish fiction. A significant amount of her books have been featured on the top best-sellers’ lists for publications such as Publisher’s Weekly, the New York Times, USA Today, ECPA, Christianbook, and CBA. Her books have also been translated into different languages so that readers can enjoy them all over the world. She has won awards and is a prolific author, having written over a hundred books with over twelve million copies in total sold and counting. Brunstetter is a successful published American author.

The Crow's Call by Wanda E. Brunstetter