Born and raised in Chicago, one of Virginia's earliest memories was writing her name on a peach-colored index card and being rewarded with her very own library card. Her family's weekly treks to the library in her city neighborhood rooted her life in a love of books and reading. She began her writing career when she moved to the coast of Maine with her own family, soon breaking in to magazines with articles about sailing/cruising, family living, and children's literature. Virginia entered the book publishing arena with coauthored books on medical topics and soon became a ghostwriter/editor for...