Marian O’Shea Wernicke is the author of Toward That Which is Beautiful, her debut novel published in 2020 by She Writes Press. She has also published a memoir about her father called Tom O’Shea: A ...visualizza altroMarian O’Shea Wernicke is the author of Toward That Which is Beautiful, her debut novel published in 2020 by She Writes Press. She has also published a memoir about her father called Tom O’Shea: A Twentieth Century Man. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to an Irish Catholic family, she entered the convent of the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood at age sixteen and spent eleven years as a nun before leaving the convent and marrying Michael Wernicke, an electrical engineer from Pensacola, Florida. Wernicke earned a master’s degree in English from the University of West Florida and went on to become a professor of English at Pensacola State College for twenty-five years. Upon her retirement from college teaching, Wernicke began her new life as full-time writer in 2010. She and her husband now live in Austin, Texas, near their daughter Kristin and son-in-law Max, and beloved grandson, August Michael.visualizza meno