Johnson, Mary

Mary Ellen Johnson was born in 1938 in Ocheyedan, Iowa, grew up on a farm in Southwestern, Minnesota, one of six children, and attended a very small school much like the one in Lambs Dancing. She graduated from Mankato State University and taught middle and high school English for twenty-nine years. Mary Ellen and her husband Carl live on Lake Pulaski in Buffalo, Minnesota. They have five children and eight grandchildren.