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About Sara
Sara Williams is the author of three mysteries, the most recent, One Big Itch set in Hawaii. The second, The Serenoa Scandal takes place in Florida and her first novel was The Don Juan Con which also set in Florida.
Ms. Williams was born in Deer Park, Washington just north of Spokane. She attended The George Washington University in Washington D.C. and earned her B.A. degree in English literature at the University of Washington.
Sara was inspired to write when working for a U.S. Senator in D.C. and taking a class in American Studies when she located a Walt Whitman document in the Library of Congress that many scholars had thought to be lost. This experience taught Sara a valuable lesson: Since a writer's works are shelved in the world's most formidable library, the work should be worthy of the self space.
After graduation, Sara became associate editor of Cascades Magazine, a well-known Pacific Northwest industrial magazine, then became a P.R. Director of the Washington Dairy Commission. She met her current husband Bill at a regional advertising convention at Rosario Resort on Orcas Island in the American San Juans. They undertook a sailing trip to Hawaii and loved it so much they stayed on for eight years. Their two sons were born in Hawaii, where the couple owned a business and Sara had a real estate brokerage. They settled in Fort Myers Florida in the early 80s, where Sara became a staff writer and columnist for the News Press of Fort Myers.
The Williamses now divide their time between a winter home in Fort Myers and a summer residence on Orcas Island, while making frequent visits to Hawaii. They also spend considerable time at LTU Villas a family-owned resort in Negril, Jamaica. Their sailing expeditions from the east coast include Isla Mujeres in the Gulf of Mexico, the Rio Dulce in Guatemala and the Honduran gulf coast, where they toured various ruins with archeologists working for National Geographic Magazine, and spent time among the Garifone people of Honduras.
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