Alicia Snow
Alicia Snow has long had an interest in English history, and her Cornish ancestry gave her a particular affinity for the legends of King Arthur. Her life experience has been eclectic and intense, and she admits to throwing herself into many passions, several of which helped to give life and substance to The Song of Guinevere: foreign travel, classical music, flamenco dance, figure skating, skiing, horseback riding, animal care, gardening, and European languages-including Greek and Latin, which were very useful in researching ancient medical documentation for this book.
She studied French at the University of California at Berkeley. When her husband gave her a camera, she went back to college, majoring in photography at the San Francisco Art Institute. Years later, her photographic training drew her to television. She freelanced at KQED, the educational channel in San Francisco, and ultimately returned to school for Federal licensing, becoming the first woman television engineer at the NBC affiliate in San Francisco.
There followed a long second marriage during which her husband encouraged her to write seriously, which she did. Meanwhile, she acquired a horse, three dogs and two cats, and with her daughter, she fostered a wide variety of injured wildlife. She also took up ice dancing at this time and achieved a life-long ambition to do death spirals. Kicking her traces in her mid-forties, she toured Africa, hiking among the gorillas of Rwanda's rain forests, and camping in the savannas of Botswana and the bird sanctuaries of the Okavango Delta. Back in San Francisco, she was offered a job working with the psychiatry department at famed San Francisco General Hospital. While there, she began to despair over the plight of childcare available to the city's working woman, and began to research possible solutions. Finally, she went back to school again to study early childhood development and child psychology, and then opened her own childcare business.
In recent years, Ms. Snow has also enjoyed housing visiting foreign faculty who come to do research at the University of California Medical Center. She has always made her home in San Francisco, but at every opportunity, she visits her daughter who is now married to a Frenchman and living in Paris with a daughter of their own.
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