Meredith Marple

Meredith Marple (also Meredith Rutter Marple) is a former independent publisher and current writer of memoir and fiction. New England-born, she spent most of her childhood in Cleveland, Ohio, before returning to college in Massachusetts. With a B.S. in zoology from Tufts University, she enjoyed a career in educational publishing before switching over to trade publishing and then writing.

She may have left esoteric aspects of "hard science" behind her, but she never lost her love for the life sciences, evidenced by a fascination with human and animal behavior that permeates her writing. In her debut novel, THE YEAR MRS. COOPER GOT OUT MORE, a moose and a cat play key cameo roles while psychology, friendship, lust, healing potions, pills, and love boost and complicate the humans' lives. In her debut memoir essay, WHAT TOOK SO LONG?, personal relationships take center stage. In her most recent memoir, I LIVE YOU FOR EVER, she captures the painful realities of living with a spouse who has mixed dementia (vascular, Alzheimer's, and Lewy body). Without minimizing the difficulties, her constant awareness of his feelings and experiences as well as her own provide insights for others going through similar situations.

Marple and her husband used to split their time between Florida and Maine. Nowadays the author lives in Sarasota, Florida, and visits friends in Maine only after spring has sprung.