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President
& Membership: Barbara Truax
Barbara
Truax is a founding member of Marin branch and past president
of the state-wide California Writers Club. During her state presidency,
the California Writers Club accepted a California Legislative Resolution,
declaring the third week of October as California Writers Week.
A native
of Wisconsin, she and her husband Don "came across the Rockies
and never looked back" in 1974. She worked in the medical field
for 24 years, signed up for a romance writing class at the local
community college "for fun" and a writer was born. Four
unpublished novels later, bemoaning her fate, her writing teacher
said, "You’re a writer—you can write anything!"
Barbara has published short stories and articles and now, after
a three year hiatus, has returned to writing. Her latest project
is the history of the Carnegie libraries in the United States. She
credits her seventh grade teacher Sister Emily for her ability to
still diagram sentences. Bad writing, typos, and grammatical errors
drive her crazy.
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Membership Chair - Mary
Jane Essex
Mary
Jane Essex is past
President of the Marin Branch of CWC: Mary Jane taught English at
University of Cincinnati, Xavier University, and Thomas More College,
her alma mater. She has retired from teaching to work with developmentally
disabled adults and to write. Having grown up in Ohio and lived
most of her life in California, Mary Jane feels she has a foot on
each side of the country. Sometimes that can be a bit of a stretch.
Her literary
models are Jane Austen, Barbara Pym, Agatha Christie, Susan Conant,
Susan Wittig Albert, William Shakespeare, Sarah Graves, Geoffrey
Chaucer, and David Lodge, not necessarily in that order. She is
still working on getting her first book published, but lives in
hope.
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