Writers and Readers discussion

Mari Mann was born in 1960 in Portsmouth, VA., and, after much moving around with her military family, grew up mostly in southeastern Virginia and spent twelve years working on a horse ranch and a farm there.

A committed reader from childhood, she now works and writes next to woods and gardens and animals in Knotts Island, North Carolina, where she moved after marrying her husband, Rod Mann, a photographer with works in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. They have traveled together to Paris, as well as Italy, Spain and Andorra and across the US several times.

Her first novel, Parisian by Heart was a quarter-finalist in Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Award in 2011. Her lifelong interest in ancient history, native cultures and art has led her to a Master’s Degree centered on Maya art and architecture, to an archaeological dig on an Anasazi site in the Southwest, and to painting and pottery-making.



http://www.amazon.com/Parisian-Heart-...

http://marimann.wordpress.com/

Congrats on your achievements and winding life path.

Germaine wrote: "Congrats on your achievements and winding life path."

Thank you, Germaine.