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Marian Hallett
Griffin was born in nineteen-fif—well, she
was born in New York. Brooklyn to be exact. Lenox
Hill Hospital to be anal. We moved to California
when I was two (my mother complains that her arm
fell asleep in New Jersey and didn’t wake up
until she saw the Pacific; I wasn’t about to
give up my pillow) but returned a couple of years
after my father died. I graduated from Holy Family
High School on Long Island (you hear the best dirty
jokes in Catholic school) and moved to Florida to
keep my mother company when she retired. (I guess
I still wasn’t ready to give up my pillow.)
Graduated from the University of Florida (Go Gators!)
with a BS in broadcasting and went to work in television
production.
I moved onto library work
after giving up on avoiding the stigma of ‘Marian
the Librarian’, (first job in tv production:
Video Tape Librarian) which I now use as my personal
introduction. That way I beat everyone to the
punchline. I am now the Director of a small public
library in Brevard County, Florida and I love
it. But every night, I go home, turn on my computer,
and start writing. Because I love writing, too.
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