Robin Jones Gunn (1955-)
Born in Wisconsin, the second of three children, Robin Jones Gunn's family moved to Orange County, California, when she was five years old. She grew up and attended school there, and later spent time in Europe before returning to the States. She met and married her husband Ross in the late 1970's, and soon afterward began working on her Christy Miller series. She has two children and a daughter-in-law, and she and her husband currently live in Portland, Oregon, where he works as a counselor and she writes and gives public talks.