Marion Rosen was a high school English teacher before becoming a full-time author. She collaborated on two high school textbooks and then decided to write something she enjoyed rea...view moreMarion Rosen was a high school English teacher before becoming a full-time author. She collaborated on two high school textbooks and then decided to write something she enjoyed reading: mysteries. She wrote two mysteries: Death by Education and Don't Speak to Strangers, both published by St Martin's Press in 1993. Nearly 10 years later, she wrote a memoir about her experience battling and surviving two deadly cancers: Dance Like Nobody's Watching (2002). She wrote a second non-fiction book, A Kid from Pittsburgh (2010) based on her husband's amazing true story as an American soldier in World War II.At the age of 79, she moved into a retirement community during March of 2020, only to find herself locked down due to the pandemic. To avoid going crazy, she entertained herself by writing a mystery-one staged in a retirement community. It took exactly one year to write, which is about how long the lockdown lasted.view less