LaVerne Brookover was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma on April 8, 1922. She spent some years in the state of Washington but lived most of her life in Northern California. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1946 with an AB in Social Welfare before marrying Warren Uhte.

By the time she received her PHT (Putting Hubby Through) degree she was launched on a career as a Mother. When that no longer engaged all her time and energy she became active in the League of Women Voters, served on the board of directors of a cooperative housing mutual and its managing corporation, and held leadership positions in local and area United Church of Christ activities.

LaVerne lived in Mill Valley, CA, on the edge of a marsh where fresh creek water mingles with the waters of the Pacific Ocean. At the age of 89, writing was her major interest and she kept in touch with her family and friends via the Internet while serving her twenty-first year as Clerk of the Fairfax Community Church.

Creig Flessel (February 2, 1912 — July 17, 2008) was an American comic book artist active from some of the earliest days of the medium, and an illustrator and cartoonist for magazines ranging from Boys' Life to Playboy. Flessel was a 2006 nominee for induction into the comic-book industry's Will Eisner Hall of Fame.

Creig was one of the founding artists of DC comics, and did Detective Comics covers before 'Batman'. Later he worked on the original 'Sandman' and 'The Shining Knight'. Despite many indexes and fanzines to the contrary, Flessel never inked Curt Swan's work and contributed pencils to only a handful of Superboy stories in the late fifties. His style was much looser than most of the DC pencillers of that era and shows greater use of brushwork, a variety of line weight and a closer attention to facial expressions.