While it does seem like it was her destiny to write historical fiction she never knew she was writing historical fiction until she was told by other people. The trips did breathe life into dates and facts and she still takes many visits to such sites with her husband to this day. In addition, her family would take vacations to historic sites such as Kitty Hawk where the Wright brothers flew their first plane, the Outer Banks of North Carolina and Virginia’s Williamsburg. The novels took her away from her world as the time periods felt exotic. When she is not writing her novels she loves to attend Astros baseball games and visit America’s national parks alongside her husband.Īnn has always been fascinated by history and as a child, she read Frances Hodgson Burnett’s “The Secret Garden” and “Little House on the Prairie” series by Laura Ingalls Wilder among several other historical fiction. She currently lives with her husband Rob in Galveston Texas. While she has spent much of her life living and working in Texas, she has also lived in Des Moines Iowa and Cambridge Massachusetts. During this time, she was contracted as a professor at the Wharton County Junior College in Texas as a sociology professor. Weisgarber then went on to work as a social worker in nursing home and psychiatric facilities in Texas. She would later attend the University of Houston and graduate with a Masters of Arts in Sociology.

She was brought up in the suburb of Kettering and went to the Wright State University from where she graduated with a bachelors in Arts and Social Work. Ann Weisgarber is a bestselling historical fiction author from Dayton Ohio.

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