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"Mela Barrows Bennett is the pseudonym I chose for the publication
of my book, Murder Makes the Rounds. Mela Barrows Bennett was my
great-grandmother, and I always thought that she had the perfect
author's name -- three unusual, but comfortable, names that sound well
together. Think of all the great authors with three names,
including
Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark, Robert Louis Stevenson, and
Edgar Rice Burroughs, just to name only a few.
I come from a long line of educated women. My
grandmother was a
graduate of Pembroke College, and my mother from Bates College.
She
also completed a Master's Degree. My great-grandmother's niece
went to
Wellesley and my grandmother's sister (Mela Barrows Bennett's
daughter) was a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine. Both of my aunts were
college graduates, as are my cousins and sister. All of this
education
has led each of us in many directions, and now I am following my need
to write. It has always been there, and now it is taking me on a
great
adventure. I expect it to be a long one."
- Barbara E. Wilhelm |
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