Arlene Corwin was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 8, 1934. A graduate of New York's High School of Music & Art and Hofstra University, she is a professional jazz singer/pianist and author of twelve books. Her writing desk looks out on deer, lingon and blueberry bushes, pine, fir, birch and one struggling oak. The living room is meters from the lake Stora Härsjön (pronounced hairsheun); the kitchen sees feeding birds, forest mice, squirrels, an old stone wall, boulders in the garden left there when the Ice Age retreated 10,000 years ago and, to make the wild civilized, flowers.
