Jean Rikhoff was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Back in the US, she settled with her young daughter in the Adirondack Mountains, first living in Bolton Landing.
The collected reports were published by Grosset & Dunlap as the Quixote Anthology, along with selected works from the magazine.
In the meantime, she had started to work with literary agent Barthold Fles,[7] who was of great support to her creative writing.
[8] Rikhoff remarried and spent 20 years on a horse farm in West Hebron, where she wrote some of her best known books.