Evelyn Marshall

Evelyn Marshall was born and grew up in Los Angeles. She majored in Theatre Arts at UCLA and discovered it was not a match. She walked away from the university. After she had been married five years, her husband asked her, "Well, would you like a house or do you want to go back to college?" She answered, "I can always have a house. I want to go back to college." She returned but to a college with smaller numbers of students in each classroom: California State University, Northridge as an English major this time. She became an English Honors student and went on to teach high school English. But again she discovered it was not a match. Finally when she became a writer of fiction, she said she came home. Her writing life came late. Her first published novel (2012), THE PROVIDER, is based on her perceptions of the life of her Russian immigrant parents. Their love story. It won the Finalist Award for Literary Fiction from the 2012 International Book Awards contest. Her second published novel (2012) is THE WAY THEY SEE. It is an American love story about unintended lives. A couple reunites after 25 years. Her third published novel (2014) is CONCERNING GEORGIA STEKKER. It is a cautionary tale about a woman driven to swindle fortune hunters. Her novels generally fall in the era of the 1950's.