Carolyn Meyer is a native of Pennsylvania, where she spent her childhood and went to college. She began writing in high school, and at Bucknell University she majored in English. She graduated cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa honorary society. Before she became successful as a writer, she worked as a secretary.

Meyer has lived in Connecticut, a second time in Pennsylvania, New York City, New Mexico, and Texas. She has traveled to many parts of the world and has written both nonfiction and fiction about her travels. She has contributed to a number of popular magazines for adults such as Redbook and Town and Country.

Meyer's first book for young people, entitled Miss Patch's Learn to Sew, was published in 1969. For years she concentrated on nonfiction in which she wrote about stitchery, breadmaking, crafts, and rock tumbling, before she moved...