C. C. Vaughan

about the author

Christina Vaughan was born in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, and lived for her first year in the W. W. Vaughan family home on Grandview. When she was a year old, her parents bought a ranch in the Pershing area near Pawhuska. Except for a couple of moves as a temporary “Army brat” when she was four, they lived at the ranch until she was six. Then her father, George Clay Vaughan, took a job at the Cities Service Oil/LP Gas headquarters in Bartlesville Oklahoma.

After graduating from College High School, She worked for Cities Service for the summer typing and proofreading contracts. In the fall she attended Oklahoma State University for one year, then went back to work for Cities Service and attended Bartlesville Business College. Back to OSU for another semester, then moved to Long Beach, California, with her mother. She saved up her money from working for Western Girl (now changed to Western Temps to avoid chauvinism or discrimination) or calling women girls when on the job as if they never grew up as boys supposedly do to men. She then moved to her mother's native city of San Francisco, and later the North Bay. She has a son, a daughter-in-law and a granddaughter. Over the years she worked as administrative assistant, business editor, and book editor.

A pianist, Christina studied music in college, as well as creative writing, but preferred editing and writing. She is also an avid lifelong student of archaeology and anthropology. She made most of her children’s stories into You-Draw-It Stories to help kids get more involved in reading. She has written 14 You-Draw-It Books, 4 children's novels, 2 adult novels, and 2 nonfiction books. She will soon complete her latest book, a nonfiction photographic study titled Mammoth Hunters in Oklahoma, newly discovered little walls of rock art.