Maureen Mylander

MAUREEN MYLANDER

A late bloomer, Maureen waited until her senior year to declare a major in journalism at The George Washington University. That led to a career as a writer/editor for the U.S. Army Medical Service and the National Institutes of Health.

At age 35, she started researching her first non-fiction book, The Generals: Making It, Military-Style (NY: Dial Press, 1974; Kindle, 2016). Her next four books about health for the layperson include Gesundheit!, co-authored with Dr. Patch Adams, and basis of the 1998 film Patch Adams.

At age 60, Maureen started writing her first novel, Brass Ceiling: #ME-ilitary Too, as the fiction sequel to The Generals. She finished it at age 74.

She also has ghostwritten several hundred of the late Dr. Michael Halberstam’s weekly health advice columns for the New York Times Special Features Syndicate.

For fun, she took up horseback riding at age 29, skiing at 42, dragonboating at age 57, tennis at 74, and ukulele ever since.

Maureen has lived in Washington, DC; Palo Alto, CA; Vienna, VA; and Tucson, AZ. After moving full-time to Berkeley Springs, WV, in 2016, she became active in politics via Morgan County Indivisible, and in music via the Tri-State Ukeclectics Ukelele Orchestra. She is working on a sequel to Brass Ceiling.