Wander Home (Wyle) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—August 4, 1955
• Where—Hartford, Connecticut, USA
• Education—B.A. Stanford University; J.D., Harvard Law
• Currently— Monroe County, east of Bloomington, Indiana


Karen A. Wyle was born a Connecticut Yankee, but moved every few years throughout her childhood and adolescence.  After college in California, law school in Massachusetts, and a mercifully short stint in a large San Francisco law firm, she moved to Los Angeles. There she met her husband, who hates L.A.  They eventually settled near Bloomington, Indiana, home of Indiana University.

Wyle has been a voracious and compulsive reader as long as she can remember.  She majored in English and American Literature major at Stanford University, which suited her, although she has in recent years developed some doubts about whether studying literature is, for most people, a good preparation for enjoying it.

Wyle's voice is the product of almost five decades of reading both literary and genre fiction.  It is no doubt also influenced, although she hopes not fatally tainted, by her years of practicing appellate law.  Her personal history has led her to focus on often-intertwined themes of family, communication, the impossibility of controlling events, and the persistence of unfinished business.

In addition to Wander Home, Wyle has published two science fiction novels, Twin-Bred, Reach: a Twin-Bred Novel, and several short stories. She is currently in the process of revising another science fiction novel, Division, dealing with some unusual issues raised by the possibility of human cloning. She is also writing a nonfiction guide to law and lawyers, for the use of authors whose fiction involves the courtroom or other legal proceedings. (From the author.)

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