World-traveled but deeply rooted in Pennsylvania, Lois Kathryn Herr documents the lives of real people. In 2009, she published Dear Coach: Letters Home from World War II about her father and his athletes. Currently she is working on real-life fiction based on letters, journals, pictures, and other memorabilia from her mother?s family. Dear Woman of My Dreams is the first in this series. Herr majored in English at Elizabethtown College and the University of Pennsylvania then received an MBA from Fordham. She forged a successful twenty-six-year business career with Bell Laboratories, AT&T, New York Telephone, and NYNEX. In 2003, based on her experiences in telecommunications, Herr published Women, Power, and AT&T: Winning Rights in the Workplace, documenting the 1970 EEOC case against AT&T. That case established affirmative action in corporate America, and her book describes the individuals and the adventures that went into making it happen.