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Elizabeth Shook Adair, also known to family as “Tudy,” was born in 1941 to working class parents who converted to the Church when she was young. “They were extraordinary people,” she remembers. “Mama was Auntie Mame and Dad was steady and quiet. I had a wonderfully adventurous, yet very secure childhood.”
Liz attended BYU and then Arizona State College, where she graduated with a B.S. in Education. She married Derrill Adair and they had four children of their own and adopted three more. Liz became a reading specialist and taught school for several years but decided she needed to stay home to be a full-time wife and mother. She calls that her ‘Mother Earth’ decade, when they lived in an old farmhouse with a cavernous barn. They milked cows, had chickens and pigs, put up hay and raised a huge garden. Then came the ‘Business Mogul’ decade, when Liz established a specialty wholesale bakery next to the farmhouse in a little building that Derrill built into a commercial kitchen. “Both of those experiences let me teach my children to work,” she says. “I don’t pine for a lost career.” Liz has published three novels in the "Spider Latham Mystery series: The Lodger, After Goliath, and Snakewater Affair. She is also the co-editor of the book Lucy Shook's Letters from Afghanistan. More information on that book can be found by visiting the following website: www.lettersfromafghanistan.com/ Liz's latest book is a romantic mystery set in the starkly beautiful Sonora Desert and the picturesque islands and waterways of Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest. The Mist of Quarry Harbor was published by Deseret Book in June, 2005. Though Liz did go back to teaching for a time, she now works with Derrill in
their consulting company, doing project management in hospital construction. She also teaches early morning seminary. The Adairs live in Sedro-Woolley,
Washington.
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