She was educated at Marymount College[?], where she was awarded a B.A. degree, St. John's University[?], where she earned an M.A. and Hofstra University[?], where she was awarded a Professional Diploma in Reading and a Doctorate of Humane Letters.
After spending some twenty years as a full time teacher, she began writing, specialising in children's literature.
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