Nicole Kiefer was born in Germany, where she finished a secondary public school. She always loved to write, but had a hard time in school with it, because her stories where strong but her spelling and grammar as well as punctuation weak. Only after she finished school she was diagnosed with Dyslexia, enabling her to find her own way to deal with it. When she moved to France in 2002, she began to write about her experience, collected them in a Website that quickly reached unimaginable visitor counts. In 2005, a small publisher discovered her and took a chance by asking her if he could publish h...