Additional Facts about the Peace Corps' Most Successful Writer

Additional Facts about the Writer

• Served in the first decade of the Peace Corps
• Peace Corps assignment was as an Administrative Assistant to Director of Foreign Trade, also worked in the National Planning Agency as a transport economist attached to the Harvard Advisory Group
• Has a law degree
• Has appeared before the United States Supreme Court
• Pioneered the use of the battered woman’s syndrome in four murder cases
• Freed two innocent men sentenced to life in prison for murders they did not commit
• In college took one Creative Writing class and received a C +
• The writer had never met anyone in publishing or anyone who had written a novel before publishing one
• The writer’s next novel will be published by HarperCollins in 2016