Lilo Beil, née Seiferling, was born in 1947 in Klingenmuenster (Landkreis Southern Weinstrasse) and spent her childhood and youth in a parsonage in the town of Winden. She attended the Progymnasium in Bad Bergzabern and the Modern Language Gymnasium in Landau (today the Max Slevogt Gymnasium*), from which she graduated in 1966.After studying English and French in Heidelberg, she taught those languages at the Martin Luther Schule, a Gymnasium* in the town of Rimbach/Odenwald, located north of Heidelberg and south of Frankfurt. She and her husband, a former teacher and an antiques evaluator, live in the area. They have three grown daughters and a grandson. She is retired and now writes full-time.Lilo Beil welcomes responses and questions from readers. She can be contacted via her website www.

lilobeil.de.