Wendy
was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and graduated
Michigan State University. Her career as an editor and
writer began in New York City where she worked as a copyeditor
at Doubleday and Harper & Row book publishers, and later
at Us and Conde Nast Traveler magazines. She also wrote
for The Prospect Press, a Brooklyn newspaper, and received
a diploma in book publishing at New York University. After
moving to Los Angeles, she wrote and edited children's
books and audio for The Walt Disney Company. Her biography
is listed in Who's Who in America, 59th ed. It
is not clear if Wendy's passion for horses and interest
in the Lakota Indians is genetic or sociological. Her
mother's side of the family has always loved horses, and
her paternal grandmother lived on the Great Plains in
the early 1900s. Whatever the source of her attraction
to the charismatic Lakota, the reader will share her enthusiasm
for their world and their horses. A member of Women Writing
the West and Western Writers of America, Wendy is most
inspired by authors Cormac McCarthy, Annie Proulx, Deborah
Magpie Earling and the long-forgotten Dorothy M. Johnson.
She has begun work on her next book.
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