Why reinvent the wheel? Here is The Harvard Lamplighter's brief bio of our next author, Jill Ker Conway.
http://www.dce.harvard.edu/pubs/lamplighter/1999/spring/lowell.html
A slightly more extensive recap can be found on the PBS Web site. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/coorain/ei_conway.html
