Dean, Sharon

Sharon Dean grew up in Massachusetts where she breathed in the history of the Transcendentalists that wafted into her town from nearby Concord. She earned undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of New Hampshire, a state she lived in until a recent move to the west coast. In New Hampshire, she taught writing and literature at Rivier University. Before she turned to fiction, she wrote academic books and articles, mostly on the nineteenth-century writer Constance Fenimore Woolson and the contemporary writer Joyce Carol Oates. Her last academic book, The Complete Letters of Constance...