Lois Gladys Leppard is the
ever-popular and prolific writer of Mandie Books. She has also been
a professional singer, actress, and playwright. Lois studied at the
New York School of Music and the Voice Beautiful Institute in New
York under Glenn Morris Starkie. Additionally, she and her two
sisters, Sibyl and Louise, sang professionally as the Larke Sisters
and appeared in the operetta Bohemian Girl and were presented at
Carnegie Hall. As a drama student, she was in the group that
organized The Little Theater in her home town. She has written
several plays and was employed with Columbia Pictures.
She wrote the first Mandie book, Mandie and
The Secret Tunnel, when she was eleven years old. However, the book
was not published until many years later.
