Karyn
Witmer / Elizabeth Grayson
was published for the first time when she was in the fourth grade.
She finished a historical novel at fifteen. After a successful career
teaching art in elementary schools and at the St. Louis Art Museum,
she began to dabble in writing again. In 1986 her Waldenbook Award-winning
novel LOVE, HONOR AND BETRAY was published under the name Elizabeth
Kary.
In
1995 she began to write stories set on the advancing American frontier
under the name Elizabeth Grayson. Her eleventh book, MOON IN THE
WATER, was set on aboard a riverboat and garnered recognition as
both a finalist for the Romance Writers RITA award and for the prestigious
Willa Cather Literary Award.
A SIMPLE GIFT, her first contemporary novel written as Karyn Witmer,
was a Literary Guild exclusive in 2005. The paperback arrived in
bookstores in September 2006.
Karyn/Elizabeth still enjoys teaching. She occasionally teaches
a course on Popular Fiction at a local college, and is a frequent
speaker at writers' conferences around the country. She collects
miniature English cottages, enjoys needlework, and has a weakness
for antique jewelry. She is happily married to a former advertising
executive and devotes much of her time to playing "Auntie Mame"
to two her nieces.
For information on where to order Elizabeth's books, visit her website
or contact her by email: elizagray99 at yahoo dot com.
In
1995 she began to write stories set on the advancing American frontier
under the name Elizabeth Grayson. Her eleventh book, MOON IN THE
WATER, was set on aboard a riverboat and garnered recognition as
both a finalist for the Romance Writers RITA award and for the prestigious
Willa Cather Literary Award. 
