One of five children, Brenda Lee Thomas was born in Beaumont, TX. Ms. Thomas had a love for writing as early as the young age of eight years old. She realized that writing was her gift, when she ne...view moreOne of five children, Brenda Lee Thomas was born in Beaumont, TX. Ms. Thomas had a love for writing as early as the young age of eight years old. She realized that writing was her gift, when she needed to do a book report for her middle-school reading class, but was not able to get to the library to check out a book to do some research for the report. The night before going to bed, instead of returning to class empty-handed, from exasperation and an imaginative mind, she created a story, equally as exciting, and wrote a report, her own story, to turn into class the next day. The book report was given an “A” and that is when all the writing began: short stories, poems and songs.view less