Black, Mary Lee - Writer
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Mary Lee Black was born in Brookings, South Dakota, and has lived in several places including Panama and Heidelberg, Germany, because she was an army brat and then married an army officer. She has four children, who are all married with children of their own and all very successful. She has studied four languages, Latin, French, Spanish and German and was fluent in the latter two. She has written most of her life but mostly for professional reasons as a teacher, a stringer for a local paper, The Belton Journal, and a newsletter for the Fort Hood Officers’ Wives Club. She has even been a ghostwriter for a fellow teacher who needed an article for a magazine. She is retired as a public school teacher, and she is now working as an adjunct professor at Central Texas College teaching writing to ESL college students. Her first book is at Blooming Tree Publishers in Austin; it’s a YA book entitled The Violin or The Stradivarius Caper. She has two books entered in the ABC Children’s Competition entitled Lawrence and Charley the Curious Cat. She is working on a sequel to The Violin and another children’s book about Charley.