Authors Marketing Group

Marlys Marshall Styne

Website: Click Here

"Never too Late!" Click Here

Infinity Authors - Infinite Talent Click Here

Email: mstyne@aol.com

Product(s): Reinventing Myself: Memoirs of a Retired Professor (Infinity Publishing, May 2006)

To Order By Phone: 1-877-289-2665

About the Author

Marlys Marshall Styne retired in 1999 after a forty-year career in the English Department of Wilbur Wright College on Chicago’s Northwest Side, where she was department chair for seven years and Wright’s Distinguished Service Professor for 1995-96. She taught freshman composition, fiction, and surveys of British and American Literature and served as a member and chair of the Academic Affairs Committee and the Faculty Council. She served on many other committees during her long career at Wright and was an advisor and advocate for the college literary magazine, The Wright Side. She continued to teach part-time for several semesters after her retirement.

A graduate of Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, Ms. Styne received her Master of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota and began her teaching career with two years at West Virginia University. She later studied British and American Literature at the University of Wisconsin and Northwestern University and took many professional development courses in literature and the art of teaching.

For nearly thirty years, Ms. Styne was married to Julian H. (Jules) Styne, who was co-owner of the Old Town Pump singles bar in the 1960’s and later a Deputy U.S. Marshal for twenty-two years. He retired from full-time work in 1992 and died of pancreatic cancer in 2000. 

Marlys Styne is a resident of Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood, where she enjoys reading, opera, theater, walking, observing, and writing. A veteran traveler who has visited all seven continents, she hopes to continue traveling to areas she’s missed and places she wants to revisit. She also hopes to continue writing and encouraging her fellow senior citizens to discover the joys of writing.

She is a member of the Illinois Woman’s Press Association, the Story Circle Network, and the Chicago Writers Association, and a volunteer at the Chicago Cultural Center.

About the Book

Retired seven years, widowed six years, childless, seventy-three years old, the author set out to find contentment through reflection and writing. Reinventing Myself: Memoirs of a Retired Professor is a series of personal essays recounting that quest and some of the experiences that came before it.

 The book is an autobiography or personal memoir, but it is really about teaching, traveling, aging, retirement, writing, and being a woman. It is also a self-help book promoting writing as therapy and as a source of enjoyment.