Mary ann shaffer author biography for book

They grew up in the nearby Romney, West Virginia, however moved back to Martinsburg and attended high school there. She attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She worked as a librarian, an editor, and in bookshops.

Mary ann shaffer cause of death

She died on February 16, at the age of The cover art was done by Christian Raoul Skrein von Bumbala. The novel was a New York Times 1 Bestseller that sold more than three million copies, spending eleven weeks on the list and was licensed to more than thirty countries. The novel was adapted into a Netflix movie in the year Mary Ann had become interested in Guernsey when she was visiting London in She traveled there because she had originally, planned on writing a biography on Kathleen Scott, the wife of Robert Falcon Scott the English polar explorer.

As she dealt with this frustration, she chose to spend a bit of her planned stay in England to visit Guernsey, which are notable for being geographically closer to continental France than the United Kingdom. However she got stranded there when this thick fog came down and all planes and boats were then forbidden to leave the island.