Kirk, Mary

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Mary Kirk began writing stories, plays, and personal journals in grade school but never imagined making a career of writing; instead, she studied piano at Peabody Conservatory, then earned a degree in American studies and history, from Goucher College. After leaving graduate school to stay home with her first son-and having watched more "Sesame Street" than she cares to remember-she was rummaging through a filing cabinet one day and found fifteen pages that she'd scribbled years earlier. Reading through those pages, she felt a compelling need to finish the story; a...