Marilyn Shapiro Leys was born and raised in Philadelphia and migrated to Madison to attend the University of Wisconsin. Like her husband and younger son, she majored in journalism; like her older son, she was a teacher. After twenty years teaching journalism and creative writing in Milwaukee Public Schools, she and her husband retired to a beef cattle farm in southwest Wisconsin. Twenty years later, they moved to Prairie du Chien, the location of her recently-published historical novel.
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