Genilee Swope Parente

F. Sharon Swope is a former newspaper columnist who began writing novels at the age of 82. She has spent her lifetime in pursuit of creative endeavors while raising four children to be book lovers. She wrote The Fate Series in partnership with one of those children, Genilee Swope Parente and shares the experience of being an author with another, children's book author Allyn M. Stotz. Sharon turned 90 on November 13, 2017.

Genilee Swope Parente is a long-time magazine and newsletter writer/editor who also has written fiction most of her life. Her first published books are the five books of The Fate Series, which she writes with her mother F. Sharon Swope, as well as Holiday Connections, a compilation of short stories using U.S. holidays as the theme and Relative Connections, a collection of short stories by her own family members. She is now finishing her first solo mystery novel.

Swope and Parente lived in the Granbury, Texas area.