Margaux Mannion Brown was born in Midvale, Utah, a township about twenty-five minutes from the heart of Salt Lake City. After graduating from Saint Mary of the Wasatch Catholic Hig...view moreMargaux Mannion Brown was born in Midvale, Utah, a township about twenty-five minutes from the heart of Salt Lake City. After graduating from Saint Mary of the Wasatch Catholic High School, she attended the University of Utah. There, she studied philosophy, English literature, and education. Her twenty-five-year teaching career began in Salt Lake and continued when her family moved to Nevada in 1988. She currently lives with her husband in Carson City, where she continues to write and play the piano and violin. Ms. Brown loves being outdoors and frequently visits Lake Tahoe and the surrounding Sierra Nevada Mountains.view less