![]() ![]() After getting her license, most of her novels have been, like Code Name Verity, about women and flight. ![]() Both Wein and her husband have pilot’s licenses, which dramatically shifted the focus of Wein’s novels: before getting her pilot’s license, her novels were mostly about Arthurian legends. The couple moved to England and then to Scotland, where they still live today. ![]() It’s there that she met her husband at an event for hobby church bell ringers. Following high school, Wein attended Yale University, spent a year studying in England, and then earned a PhD in Folklore at the University of Pennsylvania. Wein’s mother died in a car accident in 1978, after which Wein and her siblings were raised by their maternal grandmother. When Wein’s parents separated, Wein’s mother moved her three children back to the States. Around this time, Wein also wrote her first book, a rewritten, feminized version of the Hardy Boys mystery series. Three years later, the family moved again to Kingston, Jamaica, where Wein became fluent in Jamaican patois. Though Wein was born in New York City, her family moved to England for her father’s work when she was three years old.
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