Karen Ingalls is the only surviving great grandchild of Davida and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. She is an accomplished author of two books. Her first one is a non-fiction, Outshine: An Ovarian Cancer Memoir which has won an award. Her first novel Novy's Son has been named Book of the Month with Rave Reviews Book Club. Her purpose in writing Davida is two-fold. One is to bring the deserved recognition to her work as a model. The second purpose is to bring honor to her grandfather who spent his entire life in the shadow of being a "bastard" child. Her grandfather was a kind, loving, and generous gentleman who deserves to be relieved of the stigma which came from being born out of wedlock during the Victorian era.