is Dutch and became hooked on British literature when she was an au-pair in London. Back home, American poetry and criticism came to fascinate her even more. She spent most of her academic life as an administrator at a Dutch university and wrote NOT AT ALL WHAT ONE IS USED TO: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ISABELLA GARDNER (2010) in her spare time. Marian has just finished the biography of feminist poet CAROLYN KIZER (1923-2014), who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984, and whose life spanned from the Northwest to North Carolina, from Pakistan to Paris. Marian is looking for a publisher. At present she is at work on a family chronicle, which takes place largely during World War II and its aftermath.