Mary E. Wells is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she developed her writing skills in the tear gas-filled halls of the 1960s. Over the years, Mary was a real estate agent, an award-winning newspaper reporter and editor, a researcher for fundraising at the University of Washington (the other "UW"), an eBay entrepreneur, a used car dealer in the Ozarks, a purse designer, and a Photoshop artist. She used to joke that half of her jobs frequently appear on the list of "least trusted professions." She previously published a novel, "Insinguation" in 2006. Mary died in early 2020. Shortly before her death, she completed two manuscripts. She wrote "The Other Half of the Meaning of Life" as a witty and but also insightful feminine response to Daniel Klein's "Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It." Her final books was "Invisible Sister", a novel that involved the discovery of a manuscript purported to be by Jane Austen, and, many years after her death, her brother's efforts to get it published. To make it believable, she wrote 60 pages of Austen-style prose. Both books were published posthumously by her brothers.
