Grinch's previous posting:
A little more background on Tess . From Wikipedia
Tess Gerritsen is the child of a Chinese immigrant and a Chinese-American seafood chef. While growing up in
San Diego, California, Gerritsen often dreamt of writing her own
Nancy Drew novels. Her first name is Terry; she decided to feminize it when she was a writer of romance novels. Although she longed to be a writer, her family had reservations about the sustainability of a writing career, prompting Gerritsen to choose a career in medicine. In 1975, Gerritsen graduated from
Stanford University with a BA in
anthropology, intrigued by the ranges of human behavior. She went on to study medicine at the
University of California, San Francisco. She received her medical degree in 1979 and started work as a physician in
Honolulu,
Hawaii.
While on maternity leave, she submitted a short story to a statewide fiction contest in the magazine
Honolulu. Her story, "On Choosing the Right Crack Seed," won first prize and she received $500. The story focused on a young male reflecting on a difficult relationship with his mother.
Again we had a little discussion on MS Gerritsen on 9/23/2015 before we realized that she would not be on live that night.
