{"id":26,"date":"2025-09-30T10:02:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/864821\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2025-12-05T16:22:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:22:04","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/864821\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/864821\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DorrieBioPhoto-Color-Touchup-Aug2025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1959\" height=\"2105\" src=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/864821\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DorrieBioPhoto-Color-Touchup-Aug2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1784\" style=\"width:338px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/864821\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DorrieBioPhoto-Color-Touchup-Aug2025.jpg 1959w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/864821\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DorrieBioPhoto-Color-Touchup-Aug2025-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/864821\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DorrieBioPhoto-Color-Touchup-Aug2025-953x1024.jpg 953w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/864821\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DorrieBioPhoto-Color-Touchup-Aug2025-768x825.jpg 768w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/864821\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DorrieBioPhoto-Color-Touchup-Aug2025-1429x1536.jpg 1429w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/864821\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DorrieBioPhoto-Color-Touchup-Aug2025-1906x2048.jpg 1906w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/864821\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DorrieBioPhoto-Color-Touchup-Aug2025-1675x1800.jpg 1675w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/864821\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DorrieBioPhoto-Color-Touchup-Aug2025-1117x1200.jpg 1117w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/864821\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DorrieBioPhoto-Color-Touchup-Aug2025-1320x1418.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1959px) 100vw, 1959px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dorrie-Lenore Parsons <\/strong>lives outside Boston and is a graduate of the University of California and Boston University Wheelock. A fourth-generation member of a family of theater people, she built her career as a director, set designer, and teacher of Communications and Performing Arts before turning to fiction. <em>Becoming Hazel<\/em> is the first in her <em>Inherited Treasures <\/em>series, which also includes <em>Saints &amp; Deceivers, Hoofers &amp; Hooch, Gangsters &amp; Reels,<\/em> and <em>Finding Salvadora<\/em> (due February 2025). She engages with readers through her website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dorrieparsonsauthor.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">www.dorrieparsonsauthor.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:287px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorrie-Lenore Parsons lives outside Boston and is a graduate of the University of California and Boston University Wheelock. A fourth-generation member of a family of theater people, she built her career as a director, set designer, and teacher of Communications and Performing Arts before turning to fiction. Becoming Hazel is the first in her Inherited &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/864821\/about-the-author\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About the Author&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1383,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-left-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","no-comments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/864821\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/864821\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/864821\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/864821\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/864821\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/864821\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/864821\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/864821\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/864821\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}