Author Biography
Rosalee Jaeger grew up in Detroit, Michigan, torn between becoming a writer or a concert pianist. She attended a music high school, where she excelled in both music and English, and was the valedictorian of her class. She gave piano lessons from age 13 to 18, before starting college at the University of Michigan. It was there she made her choice: writing, and majored in English. At Michigan, she studied with Allan Seager, who published over 80 short stories, and several novels. In her senior year, Rosalee won the prestigious Hopwood Award for fiction. With her prize money, she traveled to Los Angeles to pursue her writing career, and met and married Martin Jaeger. She decided to go to UCLA to get her teaching credential, and subsequently, taught high school English and social studies in the L.A. City schools. After the birth of her three children, she left teaching and worked full time managing her husband's law office, but kept on writing and kept on taking writing classes and seminars at UCLA. Among her teachers was Robert Kirsch, the late book review editor of the L. A. times. Over the years, she has edited three published books and many short stories, and was a writer on the movie, Jinn. In addition to her writing, Rosalee's hobbies are tennis, golf, bridge, reading, the theatre, and playing the piano for a Brandeis singing group. Rosalee has published one previous novel, Love and Other Passions, and is currently working on her next novel, September Song. All three novels deal with the struggles of contemporary women to overcome sometimes insurmountable obstacles to lead a rich and rewarding life.
