Alice Alme

Alice Mergel Alme was born in Anamoose, North Dakota, a small town where her Mergel ancestors migrated in 1898 and to which her family still has ties. Alice married and raised her family in the area until moving to Illinois in 1988. In 2006 she retired from the health insurance field and moved to Woodbury, Minnesota to be near her six children and thirteen grandchildren. Alice is a lifelong reader and became so interested in the nineteenth century, specifically Henry and Georgeanna, that she felt left with no choice but to write about the pioneer spirit of that time.