Schick, Mae

Mae Schick wrote Lila to shine a light on her cultural heritage as a descendant of Germans from Russia. Her parents grew up on homesteads in the Dakotas and this provided a firsthand source for the background material of her novel and short stories. Lila is available at the Createspace Store or Amazon.com in paperback or eBook from Amazon Kindle. Ms. Schick has a master's degree in linguistics. She founded SpeakFirst, a language school in Phoenix Arizona, which taught English to corporate executives and their families who recently arrived in the U.S. She designed special curriculum for twelve