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Eleanor Yukic
Born and raised in California, Eleanor Clarke Yukic spent all of her youthful leisuretime on the beach at Santa Monica or in the San Bernardino Mountains. She developed an early interest in the out...view moreBorn and raised in California, Eleanor Clarke Yukic spent all of her youthful leisuretime on the beach at Santa Monica or in the San Bernardino Mountains. She developed an early interest in the out-of-doors and the environment as she counseled at various camps for nine summers and directed for fourteen. Yukic has hiked California wilderness trails in Desolation valley, Yosemite, Mt. Whitney and over Kearsage Pass; the Long Trail in Vermont; the Milford and Abel Tasmin tracks in New Zealand; Lake County in great Britain; and in the Pyrenees of France.
Yukic worked as a teacher and with the Girl Scout and Camp Fire organizations for 38 years and has a bachelor's and master's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has been an active member of the American Red Cross, the American Camping Association and the Berkeley Teacher's Association. Since retiring she works fulltime writing mstery novels, a life long ambition.
She has three adult children and one grandchild. She lives in Albany with her faithful German Shepherd and stays in shape by lap swimming and daily hikes along the nearby San Francisco Bay Trail enjoying the sights and smells of nature while fantasizing the scene for her latest manuscript. Her prior published mysteries are THE DEVIL'S PUNCHBOWL and MURDER IN THE MIST.view less