Susan wittig albert biography
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Susan Wittig Albert
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Pseudonym for Robin Paige.
Susan Wittig Albert is the award-winning, NYT bestselling author of Loving Eleanor (), about the intimate friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok; and A Wilder Rose (), about Rose Wilder Lane and the writing of the Little House books. Her award-winning fiction also includes mysteries in the China Bayles series, the Darling Dahlias, the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter, and a series of Victorian-Edwardian mysteries she has written with her husband, Bill Albert, under the pseudonym of Robin Paige. She has written two memoirs: An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days and Together, Alone: A Memoir of Marriage and Place, published bygd the University of Texas Press. She is founder and current president () of the Story Circle Network and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.
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Susan Wittig Albert
American writer
Susan Wittig Albert, also known by the pen namesRobin Paige and Carolyn Keene,[1] is an Americanmystery writer from Vermilion County, Illinois, United States. Albert was an academic and the first female vice president of Southwest Texas State University before retiring to become a fulltime writer.[2]
Early life and education
[edit]Albert grew up in downstate Illinois, attending Danville High School before moving to the nearby community of Bismarck, where she graduated. She earned a degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley.
Educational career
[edit]She became a professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin and was a university administrator at Sophie Newcomb College in New Orleans and vice president for academic affairs at Southwest Texas State University.[1] She also writes a column for Country Living Gar
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In the first post in this series, I wrote about why I chose to begin doing research into the life of Rose Wilder Lane. Here’s Part 2.
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When I first learned about Rose, back in the early s, I had no idea that, years later, I would write a novel about her—I was simply curious about her. I had discovered from the introduction of The First Four Years that Laura Ingalls Wilder had a daughter, Rose, and that—even though her writing career had long been overshadowed by her mother’s— Rose was remembered at least by some as a “famous author” who traveled abroad and wrote a “number of fascinating books.”
This intrigued me, and I began to collect Rose’s writings, discovering that she was an accomplished and impressive professional writer with a long string of newspaper stories, feature pieces, travel articles, books, and magazine fiction to her credit. I also compiled a timeline of Rose’s life, beginning with her birth in on the Wilders’ claim in Dakota Territory, through th