The Ohio Connection
- Karen Harper was born in Toledo, Ohio.
- She received her Bachelor’s and Masters’ degrees from The
Ohio State University, where she also taught as a graduate student.
- Karen taught English at Whetstone High School in Columbus from 1970
to 1975.
- She was then chairperson for the Department of English at Westerville
North High School for 10 years, from 1975 to 1985.
- Karen Harper dedicated her first Elizabeth I Mystery, The
Poyson Garden, to her students at Whetstone High School.
- Several of her contemporary suspense novels take place in Ohio Amish
country: the trilogy of Dark Road Home,
Dark Harvest and The Dark Angel takes place in Holmes County,
as do Down to the Bone and Shaker Run.
- Central Ohio Fiction Writers’ Web site (http://www.cofw.org/Authors_Pages/Karen_Harper/karen_harper.html)
describes Shaker Run: "Kate Marburn thought she had found
a safe haven living and working in a historic Ohio Shaker village, but
she's dead wrong."
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