[1][2] Marti Leimbach's other novels include Sun Dial Street (1992) and Love and Houses (1997), after which she took time away from writing when her youngest child was diagnosed with autism.
Later she wrote Daniel Isn't Talking (2006), which by her own admission contains some autobiographical information derived from her real-life experience as a mother of an autistic child.
Leimbach's first novel, which centers around the death of a young man, was written while her own mother was dying.
In an interview with Marian Christy of The Boston Globe, she expressed regret that neither of her parents had lived to see her first publication.
Marti Leimbach attended Winston Churchill High School, then Harvard University, where she received a BA in English and American Literature and Language.