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Joy Waldron was born in Boston and raised in the countryside of Medfield, Massachusetts. In her 'twenties she went West with her family and lived for three decades in Santa Fe, New Mexico. While there she raised three children, finished college with a bachelor's in English and Modern Languages, and landscaped a half-dozen homes. She has worked as public information officer for New Mexico state agencies (3), singer-guitarist, genealogist, journalist, editor, and book author. Her nonfiction World War II books have been published by St. Martin's Press and Caliber-Penguin Books.
Joy is a francophile who learned French in Belgium and Niger, West Africa. A two-year stint in Niamey, Niger's capital, changed her life forever, for amid the Djerma tribespeople she found a compassion and camaraderie often lacking in Western cultures. A truck accident in the bush caused an emergency evacuation for surgery in Madrid, Spain, further reinforcing the sense of life's fragility.
Her forebears left England during the time of Queen Elizabeth I and fled to Leyden, Holland, after which time they eventually settled Nieuw Amsterdam (New York). She is also descended from Mayflower passengers and early settlers of Boston, Dedham, Bridgewater and Medfield. She is equally proud of her Irish ancestors who fled the Irish famine and settled in Dorchester, Mass. and her Irish-Scots great-grandparents who left a life on the River Clyde in Glasgow to strike out for the New World.
In addition to historical nonfiction, Joy Waldron also writes fiction thrillers and poetry. She is currently working on a nonfiction tale of one family's feud in Arkansas in the Reconstruction era after the Civil War. She splits time between New Mexico and the Southwest of France.
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