[1] Mann spent her childhood in Paris and was able to speak fluent French before returning to the US to go to high school.
While still in high school, Mann worked for the Northern Virginia Sun where she was an assistant teen editor.
During her time here, she joined a group of students who traveled to Cuba, disobeying federal law of the United States.
She truly wanted to expand women's rights, which is why she put so much passion into her writing on this subject.
[1] She died from breast cancer at the age of 61 at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, California.