of Speech and Hearing, then for the University's Computing Center as their only technical writer and editor.Īfter the sale of her first novel, an historical romance, in July 1979, she quit to become a full-time novelist. of Retarded People, and spent two years as an advertising lay-out artist for a regional grocery warehouse co-op, and then worked for the University of New Mexico first as a secretary in the Dept. Afterward, she worked briefly for a political party best left unnamed, was a telephone solicitor for the New Mexico Assn. While attending the university, she was a student of award-winning mystery writer Tony Hillerman and well-known YA writer Lois Duncan.

in Journalism, with a minor in history, from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, where she was graduated with distinction in 1974. Please copy, fill out the form below, and email it to to suggest a change.Kathryn Anne Ptacek was born on 12 September 1952 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA, but was raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Web rot, in which actual materials remain online but undergo changes in their URLs, is too demanding in terms of staff time for us to hope to keep external links current. We will instead record the presence of specific external materials in language that we hope will help intelligent users find it themselves.

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