Автор: Helen L. Merrell

Helen Merrell is a widow. She is eighty-eight years old and retired from the real estate business. When she was thirteen years old and in sixth grade, everyone had an autographed book. She was fascinated and wanted to become a writer. At eighty-seven years of age, she published her first children’s storybook. She was raised in a large family. She published a lot of history about her family. She has published many poems and music. She belonged to the American Society of Poets and many creative writing groups. Music is her hobby. She went to Ivy Tech Community College for creative writing. She was raised in West Lafayette, Indiana, and married and went to live on a farm. Raising her two children on the farm has given her many happy memories to write about. She is currently working on two children’s storybooks about happy families at Christmas time. She hopes they will be published before Christmas. She reads many stories to her children when it storms to keep them calm. Her son wanted to become a journalist, and her daughter belongs to a lot of book clubs.