Selby Fleming McPhee

In her professional career, Selby McPhee was a staff writer and editor at schools, universities, and other educational institutions, including the National Association of Independent Schools, where she was marketing vice president. As a freelance writer, she has published articles in a variety of magazines and newspapers, including Vermont Life, HighFidelity/Musical America, Independent School, and Burlington (VT) Free Press. While living in Vermont from 1970 to 1980, McPhee and her husband were innkeepers at a small ski lodge and managers of an attached condominium development, where they cooked breakfast, made afternoon tea, built fires, shoveled walks and, once in awhile, went skiing.

Love Crazy, McPhee’s first book, began to germinate in 1984, when she found a box of letters, marked with the admonition “to be destroyed unopened,” in a closet at her parents’ house.

McPhee, a graduate of Vassar College, grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She lives with her husband in Maryland.