A Beautiful Child was published in America in 2004 and in paperback in 2005. It tells the story of a young woman known by many names, including Sharon Marshall, who was kidnapped as a toddler and raised by a convicted felon, Franklin Delano Floyd.
Written by author Matt Birkbeck

Matt Birkbeck

Matt Birkbeck is an American author and award winning investigative journalist. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Reader's Digest, Boston Magazine and a host of other magazines, including People, where he served as a correspondent for a decade. In 2004, he...

, A Beautiful Child spurred numerous web sites dedicated to finding Sharon's true identity. Through suggestions from those sites, Birkbeck, in partnership with the National Association for Missing & Exploited Children, have conducted DNA testing on relatives of several girls who went missing in the early 1970s. To date, no matches have been found and Sharon's identity remains a mystery.