California Writers Club, Sacramento Branch

Dedicated to Educating Writers of all Levels

  • Home
  • About CWC
    • Background
    • Mission
    • Branch Leadership
    • Other CWC branches
    • Governing Documents
  • Benefits
  • Join CWC
  • Activities
    • Meetings
    • Contests
  • Newsletter
  • Members
    • Members’ Books
  • Meeting Archive
  • Member Resources
    • Critique Groups
    • Beta Readers
    • Writers Conferences
    • External Resources
    • Internal Resources
    • Build A Website
  • Contact

Mary Lou Anderson

 

Mary Lou Anderson, who writes under the name M.L. Edson, was born in California’s Central Valley. Her family soon moved to northwestern California, where redwood trees tower over everyone and everything.

Writing a journal came naturally for her, but she didn’t realize it had planted a seed to write so much more. Many false starts and normal intrusions of life (family, health, work) kept her away from pencil and paper, manual typewriters, her first electric one, then her own IBM Selectric. The availability of computers changed everything! Certainly a book lived within the electronic wiring.

Teaching inside California’s prisons for two decades gave voice to her characters … both evil and heroic. Her works include novels The Six Rivers Killer, based on a true crime, and Sierra Heist, about people trying to survive the skittish economy. Also available are: Not Even a Shadow, a journal written while working in the prison system; Grammar Guardian, a quick punctuation/grammar guide; Doing Life with a Map, a workbook for those at-risk and co-authored with Lee Bowman; and Poems, covering all life’s aspects.

 

 

 

 

Filed Under: UncategorizedTagged With: annual, holiday social, marie callenders, other

Join the Club!

Click here to become a member of CWC-Sacramento.

"I have gained so much from my involvement in this club - support, connections, information and friendships. It's priceless!" - Club Member

Facebook

Facebook

Meetup

Click here to  learn more.

Copyright © 2023