Laurel Schunk has always loved reading and writing. Schunk has written
six books – four adult mystery/suspense novels as well as two easy
readers for second graders. Her first two books are suspense novels, The
Voice He Loved and Black and Secret Midnight. Her third book Death
in Exile is a mystery set in regency England. Under the Wolf’s
Head, the first in the Callista Bagley Gardening Mystery Series, is
authored under the pen-name Kate Cameron. In A Clear North Light,
she has begun a three-book saga about Petras Simonaitis and his family in
pre-World War II Lithuania. Schunk visited Lithuania in 1996, when she
interviewed fifteen people about how living under Nazi and then Soviet
domination affected their faith lives. From Nazi massacres of Jews to the
Stalin-ordered exiles into Siberia, she has turned their heart-wrenching
stories into a three-generation epic of ordinary people living heroically
under impossible circumstances. A Clear North Light covers events
beginning in 1938 and ending in 1940.
Schunk has a bachelor’s degree in French from the University of
Illinois as well as a second major, in psychology, from Wichita State
University. She teaches writing and likes to encourage other writers.
Schunk lives in Wichita, Kansas, with her husband, children, and
grandchildren.
Write the Author: lschunk@skpub.com
