Biography

Lee Anne was born in Oakland, California and after an interesting childhood and adolescence wound up at the University of California at Berkeley where she chanced upon her first course in programming computers. The world lost an excellent therapist at that moment since she promptly abandoned her psychological and literary studies and devoted herself to high technology and whiz-bang engineering from then on.

She was particularly captivated by packet-switching networks, a part of the Berkeley distribution of Unix, and the possibilities inherent in this new medium, using it as the basis of an independently-envisioned hypertext version of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake incorporating scholarly annotations and images. The fact that she didn't patent her ideas, reaping thereby rewards beyond the dreams of avarice, is not completely lost on her but she's never been terribly worldly so she still sleeps well at night.

Since those heady days, she's been involved in networking as a systems programmer and then programming manager, expanding her knowledge of networks and the computers they run on. Of late she's been writing about computers, sharing some of her enthusiasm for the medium and explaining the concepts in a simple and clear way that avoids the typical jargon and obfuscation that characterize many technical writings. It's interesting that she started out her career in computing by making Joyce, a literary maestro who also wrote obscurely at times, understandable and has come full circle back to doing the same for the masters of the Internet.

It's not surprising though, when you consider that she's always had a way with words, reading and publishing her poetry and stories in various venues and maintaining a lively interest in books and publishing throughout her life. She has a daughter, Karen, who continues to be a source of pride and wonder to her.