A retired librarian and debut novelist, Paulette Brooks holds a bachelor’s degree in Honors English Literature from University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) and a master’s degree in Library and Information Science from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Paulette was born in Toronto and lived in Canada for the first half of her life. According to her Scottish grandfather, they had a distant family connection to the explorer David Livingstone.

She lives with her husband outside of Indianapolis where, when not writing, she loves to read, bake pies, garden, and work on jigsaw puzzles, all the while trying to keep up with the activities of her six grandchildren.