Margaret Harmon

Margaret Harmon was born in Fargo, North Dakota, and grew up in California and Maryland. She decided just before her fifth birthday to become an author--and was kicked out of kindergarten for reading during naptime. School ultimately got better, and Margaret began writing humor and poetry for publication at sixteen.

At three California colleges and universities, she studied French and writing, intending to move to France to become a French novelist. Instead, she married a fellow American and taught English and French in high school and college.

Still driven to write, though, she stopped teaching to freelance feature articles and humor pieces and write novels, fables, and short stories. She and her geography professor husband and two children lived awhile in England and France.

The Man Who Learned to Walk In Shoes That Pinch was "the most-requested book, ever, from a LOS ANGELES TIMES review" and won Margaret a spot on "The Best of the Best San Diego Writers" public radio program. PINCH fables have become favorites with story tellers and literature and oral interpretation professors. PINCH fables also appear in a French doctoral dissertation.

An avid birder and artist, Margaret wrote and illustrated A Field Guide to North American Birders--A Parody, which won First Place in the 2002 San Diego Book Awards' Fun and Games Division.

Margaret lives in California with her husband. They travel to see new birds and birders, collect exotic accents and languages (like Maya), and discover irresistible characters with goals.