Mary Monica Pulver was the name I was using when I began selling short stories. It's my maiden name. I'd married by then, and my name was now "Mary Kuhfeld", but very few people are actually able to spell that. (My husband says he's given fillers-out-of-forms his name in inch-high Helvetica print, and gotten it back spelled incorrectly.) Nobody has trouble with Mary, Monica, or Pulver.

This is what I looked like, back in those days. It's been a while since then, and the forces of entropy have been at work. And here is the picture which was used in my first book, Murder at the War. I'm dressed medievally, which makes sense: it was a medievalist book. The picture is in black-and-white, which is how publishers liked them in those ancient days.

Murder at the War was written on a TRS-80 Model III computer with 32k of RAM and a tape recorder that stored the files on cassette. How things have changed!