Anne is a native New Yorker now living in Tucson Arizona. She grew up in Flushing Queens. She moved to the East Village of Manhattan in 1966. A few month later the Sixties began there. As Anne says, "I took to it like a duck to water. It fitted my soul." In 1967 the Women's Liberation Movement started in the East Village. It had only been going for 2 months when Anne went to her first meeting. She went out of curiosity and was instantly converted at her first meeting. In 2010 her husband urged her to write about it. He said, "Everyone is interested in how women's liberation started. You were there. It is real history." So she wrote and published, Not what you'd expect. How the women's liberation movement started: My personal experience. She met her husband Bill in 1970. He was working at the Paradox, a hippy restaurant in the East Village. He had just arrived from California. She was off for the summer from school teaching and hung out there. He moved in with her soon after, and when school teaching promptly fell apart for her, he suggested she become a writer. He would support her. He was only earning $96/week as Wall Street messenger and going to school at night, but Anne accepted his generous offer. She decided to give writing a whirl. And to her amazement and joy, it worked. She has been writing ever since. In Thanksgiving 1991, when their life in NYC collapsed, they moved to Tucson Arizona with their dog. Anne fell in love with the desert and is happy in Tucson. She loves the bright sun, the blue sky, and the birds singing to you year round. Tucson has outside swim pools open year round. Heated in winter. Anne loves to swim and is overjoyed to swim under the blue sky and sunshine. She swims every day in every weather. For the joy of it. In 2008 she discovered self publishing. It does not cost the writer anything if she is willing to do all the work herself. Haboob is now the 5th novel Anne has published. Anne says, "It is God's gift to writers that we can now publish our own books." She is very grateful.