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Marilyn Shapiro Leys

Marilyn Shapiro Leys was born and raised in Philadelphia and migrated to Madison to attend the University of Wisconsin. Like her husband and younger son, she majored in journalism; like her older son, she was a teacher. After twenty years teaching journalism and creative writing in Milwaukee Public Schools, she and her husband retired to a beef cattle farm in southwest Wisconsin. Twenty years later, they moved to Prairie du Chien, the location of her recently-published historical novel.

Marilyn Shapiro Leys