Dr. Florence Byham Weinberg is an award-winning American author.  She was born in Alamogordo, New Mexico and traveled extensively in her youth as part of a military family during WWII. At the age of 21, she married Kurt Weinberg, a brilliant scholar and professor, and after earning her own PhD., Florence taught for 4 years at the University of Rochester, 22 years at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, and for 10 at Trinity University in San Antonio. When she retired in 1999, she devoted her life to writing her highly acclaimed collection of books.