A native South Carolinian, Coralee Cooper is the granddaughter of an unsuccessful bootlegger and an equally unsuccessful prostitute. But don't spread that around! If anyone's asking, they were very successful. This genteel Southern lady has been writing since she was in the second grade. Her dime store diary holds secrets that remain hidden even to this day. Now that she's a grown-up, Coralee's writing has taken a different turn. She's more interested in other people's secrets!
Ms. Turnbull holds academic degrees in geography, inspired by a childhood curiosity about foreign lands. Developing a passion for exploration during graduate school, she became not only an avid reader of traveler chronicles from past centuries, but also an amateur collector of historic maps.