Liz graduated from Fredonia (Arizona) High in 1958.  She spent two years at BYU before transferring to Arizona State College (now NAU) where she graduated with a BS in Education.

 

Liz married Derrill Adair in 1963, and they had four children of their own and adopted three more.  Lz became a reading specialist and taught school for several years, but decided she needed to stay home to be a full-time wife and mother.  She calls that her 'Mother Earth' decade, when they lived in an old farmhouse and milked cows, had chickens and pigs, put up hay, and raised a huge garden.

 

Then came the "Business Mogul' decade, when Liz established a specialty wholesale bakery next to the farmhouse in a little building that Derrill built into a commercial kitchen.  "Both of those experiences let me teach my children to work," she says.  "I don't pine for a lost career."

 

The 'Literary Decade' began in 1989 ad is still going on.  Books by Liz Adair include the Spider Latham Mystery Series, consisting of The Lodger, After Goliath and Snakewater Affair, as well as Mist of Quarry Harbor, all published by Deseret Book.  Liz is also the co-editor (with her daughters Terry Gifford and Ruth Lavine) of Lucy Shook's Letters from Afghanistan.  Her newest work, Counting the Cost, a novel based on family history, is published by Inglestone publishing.

 

Also by Inglestone is Liz Adair's pamphlet, Using Family History in Fiction, written to complement the classes Liz teaches on that subject at writers' and family history conferences.

 

Li and husband, Derrill, live in Sedro Woolley, Washington, in close proximity to eight of their seveenten grandchildren.  She and Derrill have a consulting company doing project construction management for healthcare organizations. 

 

Liz is active in American Night Writers Association and LDStorymakers and belongs to the Skagit Valley Writer's League.