Gail Marlow Taylor Ph.D.

Gail Marlow Taylor was only eight years old when her family moved to Tehran, where her father headed a project to establish a school of public administration at the University of Tehran. In Iran, she and her little brother Billy found themselves immersed in a country and a culture that would change their lives forever. She grew up with her father's love of history and a restless passion for travel.

Later, as a teenager at the University of Pittsburgh, she met and fell in love with the man who would be her husband for fifty years. After an attempt to join the Peace Corps and separation during the war in Vietnam, Gail and Chuck began to raise a family, but they never settled down for long.

Gail had a long career as a medical technologist, but when she discovered the exciting new world of IT, she moved to the department of Information Systems. After retirement, she went back to school to earn a Ph.D. in history at the age of 69. Her writing reflects her interest in history, medicine, and faraway places. "Time to Unpack" is her third book.

Gail's first book, "The Alchemy of al-Razi: A Translation of the Book of Secrets", compares the alchemy manual of the tenth-century Persian physician al-Razi to the operation of a modern chemical laboratory. Her second book, "You Can Only Go Forward: A Journey of Caregiving and Hope, Loss and Renewal", has a medical emphasis, sharing the ups and downs of her husband's seven-year struggle with multiple myeloma.

Gail currently lives in Temecula, California, with her poodle puppy, Rascal. She enjoys her family of four children, twelve grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren, and loves nothing more than packing some of them off to faraway places.