Born in 1926 and raised on a farm near Havre de Grace, Maryland, the author graduated from Western Maryland College and taught at Leland Junior High School in Chevy Chase, Maryland. She met Bob Twitchell, a student at Lafayette College, while working as a counselor at Lochearn Camp for Girls in Vermont. They married in 1951 and settled in Haddonfield, New Jersey, Bob's hometown. Active in community and civic affairs, Bob and Jan were each named, in their own right, Haddonfield Citizen of the Year – Bob in 1981, Jan in 2002. Bob died in 2013 at age 90. Jan lives at Brandywine Haddonfield. This is her first book.