The Mill River Recluse

Darcie Chan was born in Wisconsin but grew up in various places because her father's job of school psychologist and school administrator caused them to move often. She lived in Indiana and Colorado for a tme while attending school. She went to college at Indiana University, a major research institution and majored in biology on her way to medical school. However, in junior year she changed her major to English and aimed for law school. She earned her environmental science certificate frin IU, which increased her interest in environmental law. She attended law school at the University of Baltimore. She finished her law degree and took a job with the United States Senate drafting environmental and natural resource legislation. In the evenings she began to write The Mill River Recluse, her first novel. In May 2011 she uploaded her novel to the Kindle Store and everything changed quickly. It hit the New York Times bestseller list three months later, and the Wall Street Journal ran a story about it in December 2011.

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