Leland, Toni

Marilyn M. Fisher was born in Buffalo, New York, and moved to central Virginia as an adult. Considering this area as one of the most beautiful and intriguing parts of the United States, she chose it as the setting for her three novels, "The Case of the Three Dead Horses", "He Trots the Air", and "Cross of Gold Road".

Fisher holds an MS, an MA, and a PhD in English education and British and American literature and has been a college professor of literature and composition in New York and Virginia. Her study of literature from the fourteenth through the twentieth centuries has shaped her appr...