LaVerne Nygren

I was born in Lansing Michigan on August 13,1948 although, I grew up and graduated from high school in Fowlerville, a small farming town between Lansing and Detroit. In 1970, after being a 1960's hippy and antiwar protestor, I graduated from Michigan State University with a B.S. in Social Science and a teacher certificate. After Graduation I moved to Hawaii, married a South African woman I had known previously. Following our marriage in Hawaii, we moved to Florida and spent three years there. We moved to Orange County, Calif. in 1973.

I have worked as a manager for: a finance company, a restaurant, a restaurant equipment company and an electrical contractor in Orange County. I also worked at San Onofre nuclear power plant (A book is in the making from that job) and I owned and ran a bowling tournament club that eventually had a TV show on local cable TV. Moving to Riverside, Calif. in the mid 1980's, I became general manger of an underground electrical company after working on a horse ranch for three years. Knowing I would eventually want to write, I have kept journals, character sketches and short stories all my life. I felt one had to live before writing of life. A year ago a publisher expressed interest regarding the writings of my hippy years. Because of various upsets in my life I have not followed up. I have self-published a small book: HOME BUSINESS EXPOSE and am currently working on a novel of self discovery and tragedy.