Pamela Bauer Mueller | |
Birth Date: | September 14, 1945 |
Birth Place: | Chicago, Illinois |
Occupation: | Writer |
Nationality: | American |
Alma Mater: | Lewis & Clark College |
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Website: | Official website |
Pamela Bauer Mueller (September 14, 1945) is an American writer of historical novels and children's books.[1]
Bauer-Mueller was born in Chicago, Illinois, on September 14, 1945. She was raised in North Bend and Klamath Falls, Oregon. She graduated from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, with a degree in Spanish.[2]
Bauer-Mueller worked for two years as a flight attendant for Pan American Airlines. She left Pan American and married Mexican architect Eduardo Gual. The couple lived in Mexico City for eighteen years. Pamela and Eduardo have two children, Cassandra and Ticiana. She brought her daughters to San Diego, California, in 1986, where they lived for the next eight years. Bauer-Mueller worked as a model, an actress, and an English and Spanish language instructor during her time in Mexico.
After returning to the United States, she became an officer for the U.S. Customs Service, working for twelve years in San Diego, California, and then moving to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She worked on this foreign assignment for five more years.
In 1995, Bauer-Mueller married Michael Mueller. They met while training for the U.S. Customs Service. Bauer-Mueller took early retirement from the government to write her first children's book, following her husband back to Georgia for his instructor position at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. They now reside in Jekyll Island, Georgia.
Bauer-Mueller has written The Kiska Trilogy; Hello, Goodbye, I Love You; Neptune's Honor,[3] An Angry Drum Echoed, Aloha Crossing, Splendid Isolation, Water to My Soul, Lady Unveiled, The Dancing Delilahs, A Shadow of Hope; Fly, Fly Away; and The Sky Is My Home in Georgia.[4] [5]
Starting with Neptune's Honor: A Story of Loyalty and Love (2004), Bauer Mueller has written various historical novels.[3] [6]
Her books have won awards at the San Francisco Book Festival, New York Book Festival, Paris Book Festival, New England Book Festival, Great Southeast Book Festival, and many other book festivals.[7] [8]