Elizabeth Hershberger Bauman (1924-1995), lived much of her life in Goshen, Indiana, where she was a mother of four children; school teacher; and active in her congregation. She and her husband, Harold E. Bauman, served in Ireland for two years in reconciliation work. Coals of Fire was written at the request of the Mennonite Church in 1954 and has become a classic on Christian peacemaking and nonresistance.