[3] As a youth, she enjoyed the Nancy Drew novels and books by Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
[4][2] She worked as a high school English teacher from 1955 to 1960 and as an assistant for Harold Prince from 1960 to 1976, raising funds to help him produce notable musicals including Fiddler on the Roof, Company, Follies, and A Little Night Music.
[4][2] She married Martin Meyers, a writer an actor, on August 19, 1963; they have no children.
[2][4] Meyers quit working for Prince in order to focus on her writing career.
Then she had the idea to write a mystery that incorporated her theatre and Wall Street careers.