Her teaching subjects included art, literature, mythology, the Bible in literature, college composition, creative writing, and British and American literature, as well as time spent directing the sets and costumes crews for the high school's drama department. Ĭrusie's first career was a teacher, beginning with pre-school, then elementary and junior high art, high school English, and undergraduate college English courses, including 15 years in the Beavercreek, Ohio public school system. He was soon transferred to Dayton, Ohio and they have since divorced.
Family and career Ĭrusie married in 1971, and followed her Air Force husband to Wichita Falls, Texas. She has also completed all the coursework towards a Ph.D. Her second master's degree is an MFA in Fiction from Ohio State University. She has a Master's degree from Wright State University in Professional Writing and Women's Literature, her master's thesis, "A Spirit More Capable Of Looking Up To Him," was on the role of women in mystery fiction from 1840 to 1920. Education Ĭrusie graduated from Wapakoneta High School, and then earned a bachelor's degree in Art Education from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. Crusie has spent much of her life living and working in Ohio.
She chose to honor her maternal grandmother by writing under her grandmother's maiden name, Crusie. She has written more than twenty novels, which have been published in 20 countries.Ĭrusie was born as Jennifer Smith in Wapakoneta, Ohio to Jack and JoAnn Smith. Ignoring her insistent best friend, some interfering do-gooders and the ubiquitous Fred-not to mention her suddenly raging hormones-Nina thinks anyone but Alex would be a better bet for a relationship.Jennifer Crusie (born 1949) is a pseudonym for Jennifer Smith, an author of contemporary romance novels. doctor who shares Fred's abiding love for Oreos-but a ten-year difference in age, despite his devastating smile, is too wide a gap for Nina to handle.
But for all his faults, he does manage to put Nina face-to-face with Alex Moore, her gorgeous, younger downstairs neighbor.Īlex looks great on paper-a sexy, seemingly sane, surprisingly single E.R. Overweight, smelly and obviously suffering from some kind of doggy depression, Fred is light-years from perky. And what she wants is something her ex always vetoed-a puppy. Freedom to have her own apartment in the city, freedom to focus on what she wants for a change.
For Nina Askew, turning forty means freedom-from the ex-husband whose career always came first, from their stuffy suburban home.
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