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Product Description
Retired seven years, widowed six years, childless, seventy-three years old, depressed, the author set out to find contentment through reflection and writing. Reinventing Myself: Memoirs of a Retired Professor is a series of personal essays recounting that quest and some of the experiences that came before it. Ms. Styne advocates writing for everyone, and hopes to encourage people of all ages, especially her fellow senior citizens, to write.
About the Author
Marlys Marshall Styne is a resident of the Old Town neighborhood in Chicago. She retired in 1999 after forty years of teaching in the English Department of Wilbur Wright College on Chicagos Northwest Side, where she was department chair for seven years and Wrights Distinguished Service Professor for 1995-96. She enjoys reading, opera, theater, walking, observing, and writing. A veteran traveler who has visited all seven continents, she hopes to continue traveling to areas shes missed and places she wants to revisit.