Wyllie, Romy

ROMY WYLLIE has an MA in English and History from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland (1955), a diploma in business and secretarial practices from St. Godric's College in London (1956); and a diploma in interior design from the Harrington Institute of Interior Design in Chicago (1974).

Romy started writing in her mid-sixties after a devastating wildfire destroyed fifty percent of the houses in her neighborhood. Realizing that all the materials she had been saving to recount the story of bringing up a child with Down syndrome would have been destroyed if her house had burned, she took a