Susan Wittig Albert: Susan became a full-time writer after abandoning her second career in teaching. (Her first career was in mothering, during which she produced three great kids, sons Bob and Michael and daughter Robin.) After undergraduate work, she went on to earn a Ph.D. in English from the University of California at Berkeley. For 15 years, she taught and held administrative positions at the University of Texas at Austin, Newcomb College of Tulane University in New Orleans, and Southwest Texas State in San Marcos, Texas. Thoroughly fed up with academic politics, she quit (yes, just like that) and began writing books for young adults. In 1986, she and Bill Albert were married, and the rest is...murderously good fiction.
