Peggy R. Wolfe has had a long history with macular diseases. In the early 1980s, her mother discovered with great disappointment after cataract surgery that the underlying cause of her vision loss was macular degeneration. She had expected to be able to see clearly, but instead her vsion continued to decline until she reached the stage of legal blindness. However, over the course of these many years she was able to live a contented life, enriched by a weekly shipment of Talking Books, until she died at the age of 88.

And now, twenty-five years later, the author herself has been living with the disease since 1999. Her longtime exposure to macular diseases has left the author with an accepting spirit, filled not with fear but with the will to do battle to make the best possible life now and later.

She holds a B.A. degree in English and philosophy and a MLS degree in library science. She created the corporate library at a major food company and worked as a research fellow/librarian at a major university. She has had a parallel career working in the small publishing company started by her father in 1939 and has been its president for the last twelve years. She volunteers in her church's music library where she has developed databases listing music scores and compact discs. She lives in Minnetonka, Minnesota and has two adult children; her husband of forty-four years died early in 2007.