Enjoying a second career as an author of both fiction and nonfiction, Mary G. Karpin uses her background in science, participant in People to People Ambassador program to China, and specialist in teaching the disabled (Hearing and Language impaired) to craft her work.

    When asked where her stories come from, she replies - “They just appear full grown inspired by a particular incident or news item. As a Native New Yorker, I am surrounded by drama of present day and the past. I can walk down a street and see the storefront of a former speakeasy, a row of tenements from the pages of old newspapers, and of course, visit numerous museums. New York’s past tickles my creativity and compels me to develop a theme - either in fiction or as a teaching aide for others with similar interests.

    “Fiction is my latest passion when I can travel back in time and visit a world inhabited by exciting characters such as those in 1924 New York - the setting for Past is Prologue and One Went Missing, the first two books in my James Nathaniel Walker series, an historical crime fiction series.”

    Her debut nonfiction book: The Constitution of the United States of America: Clear and Simple, introduces readers to the essence of this historic document, using her skills as a former educator to rephrase it's passages for clearing understanding.

Previously, Ms. Karpin published To Thine Own Self, a novel inspired by her insider’s look at what it means to be a teacher in the New York City school system.  

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