Bio

I was born in Meriden, Connecticut in 1943 and raised in Rutland, Vermont with three younger brothers. I was educated at Mount Saint Joseph Academy in Rutland, the University of Vermont, and the  University of Massachusetts/Amherst. I am married to Michael W. Morris, an attorney, and I’m the mother of five children, and grandmother of twelve. I live on the North Shore in Massachusetts.

My first novel Vanished was published in 1988. It was nominated for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. A Dangerous Woman was published in 1991 and was chosen by Time magazine as one of the “Five Best Novels of the Year.” It was made into a motion picture starring Debra Winger, Barbara Hershey, and Gabriel Byrne.

Songs In Ordinary Time was published in 1995. Two years later, it was chosen as an Oprah’s Book Club selection, which propelled it to the top of the New York Times Best Sellers List for many weeks, as well as making it an international best seller. Songs was made into a CBS television movie starring Sissy Spacek and Beau Bridges.  The highly acclaimed Fiona Range was published in 2000, followed by A Hole In The Universe in 2004, The Lost Mother in 2005, followed by The Last Secret in 2009 and Light from a Distant Star in 2011.

My most recent novel is The Silence.