I married Steve Turner in 1960, graduated from The American University in Washington, D.C., went to the University of Pennsylvania for graduate work, and spent five years working in housing advocacy in Philadelphia. Eventually, I got a Master of Science degree (and later a Doctor of Arts) and became a public library administrator, directing libraries in Amherst and Lowell, Massachusetts, and the Santa Cruz (CA)City-County Library System. I wrote four books for the library profession, and won an ACLU award for defying the Patriot Act.
In March 2012 my husband of 51 plus years died. That July I moved to a life care facility in San Francisco, where I continue to write, walk, go to the opera, and volunteer at a local school.
