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Mary Sheldon

Early life and education:

She was born in 1955, to novelist Sidney Sheldon and actress Jorja Curtright. She was educated at St. Clare’s Hall in Oxford and Yale University and graduated from Wellesley College with honors in English.

Career: She has written ten novels, including Halfway Home, Reflection, and Pandora Brown. She won a Brandeis literary award for her novel, Perhaps I’ll Dream of Darkness.Her nonfiction work includes the Meditation Trilogy (coauthored with metaphysical teacher Christopher Stone) - written over a dozen children’s audio books including I Am America(featuring the voices of President and Mrs. Bush, President Nixon, President and Mrs. Ford, and Mrs. Carter, as well as numerous internationally renowned actors,) which won a Children’s Book Choice award, and Audrey Hepburn’s Enchanted Tales, which was honored with a Spoken Word Grammy Award. -Mary is married, with two daughters, and lives in southern California.