About The Author

Born in Andover, Massachusetts, Elna Nugent is an educator, artist, former newspaper columnist, and now an author.

A painful tragedy during Nugent’s childhood caused a trauma to develop within her and motivated a serious research on her existence, philosophy, religion, psychology and the various studies of human condition.

She graduated from Lesley College in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she majored in early childhood studies and child psychology. She has taught in an elementary school in Worcester, Massachusetts, Greenwich, Connecticut, and Albany, New York.

After her marriage in 1960, she has lived in Lenox, Western Massachusetts with her husband and four children. She then taught adult education courses at home and at Berkshire Community College.