Sara Hoskinson Frommer
Sara Hoskinson Frommer is a charter member of the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra in Bloomington, Indiana, where she has lived for more than 30 years after growing up mostly in northern Illinois, with a few years in Hawaii. Like Joan Spencer, her amateur detective, she plays viola, and like Joan, she also has played in the pit for Gilbert & Sullivan operettas. But both Joan and Sara have a life beyond music, including adult children. "A good thing, too," Sara says. "Fortunately, I write better than I play !" She prepared for her career as a mystery writer by studying German (of all things !) at Oberlin College (Ohio), in Tübingen (Germany) and at Brown University.
Joan manages the senior citizen's center in Oliver, Indiana, the imaginary college town in Murder in C Major, Buried in Quilts, Murder & Sullivan, and The Vanishing Violinist. Since the beginning of Buried in Quilts, she has also been managing the orchestra, a job Sara says she would never take on. "I gave it to Joan to frazzle her," she says.
Sara has also written 16 short, easy-to-read books for adult new readers. Published by New Readers Press, the publishing division of Laubach Literacy International, they are known as the Kaleidoscope Collection of Stories. Five of them are mysteries: Stop That Woman !, Dear Mary Ellen, I Didn't Do It !, No Hunting, and Help Me !.
She is a member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime. She has her own home-page at http://www.sff.net/people/SaraHoskinsonFrommer
