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Pfeiffer helped her son-in-law produce a video on the
outlaw Henry Plummer. His wife intrigued her because although there are
stacks of books and articles about Plummer, there are scarcely three
pages about his missionary wife, Electa Bryan. Visiting Montana and
Bannack State Park gave Pfeiffer the drive to write Electa’s story,
The Sheriff’s Wife.
The idea for her,
Bury Him Deeper, came from hearing idle gossip as a
child. She set the story on the farm where she grew up and was
“tremendous fun to write—almost like living there again,” she says.
Keeping Her
Head: Against her aristocratic father's wishes, Jazelle
Heureau marries her gardener. She worries over whether her father
or her uncle is her true father. She receives half of a
strange-looking amulet, which she is told will keep her safe. Is
it because of the amulet that she is rescued from the guillotine?
She and her husband escaped to Quebec, where they begin a free
life--taking the family jewels with them.
Pfeiffer was born in Central Minnesota. Her mother was a country schoolteacher, so
Pfeiffer moved often as a child. She came west to work on the “atomic
bomb project” in Washington state and met her husband in North Idaho,
when he returned from service with the Marines in the South Pacific.
They were married in 1945 and have raised seven children. She and her
husband lived on a hobby farm in Eastern Washington. Pfeiffer has
always been active in church affairs and for several years directed the
now largest Christian workers conference in the nation.
Pfeiffer taught workshops in several states and directed
a Christian
Writers Workshop for five years in Spokane, WA . She taught extended
classes on writing at Spokane Community College and North Idaho College
and leads two critique groups. She gives many hours helping
beginning writers. Pfeiffer is finishing her eight novel and
preparing for publication.
Her signature is “Write On!” |
