Eastman, Tamara J.: - Tamara Eastman has worked in the field of history throughout her life. In addition to her writing, she has served as a tour guide for the City of Petersburg and a living historian portraying seventeenth-century characters. Her first book was The Pirate Trial of Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Ms. Eastman is also a filmmaker, presently directing Insurrection and Gallows Bait. By day she is a military historian for the department of defense and lives in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.