The fourth of eight children born to an Aroostook County, Maine, potato farmer and his wife, the author, Martha Stevens-David desired to be a writer since the age of eight. In 1982, when teaching English as a second language in Taipei, Taiwan, she began writing the stories that she had carried in her mind all of her days. In June, 2011, her first book, Autobiography of a Simple Soul was published, followed by: Memories, Another Place, Another Time and now in 2014, Martha proudly introduces this, her third book, Mainely Memories. The author lives with her husband in Minot, Maine.