Maxine Rose Schur

Maxine Rose Schur is an award-winning children's book author and travel journalist. Her travel essays have run in major newspapers, magazines, guidebooks, and on NPR. She has won PEN America's Keats Soul-Making award twice for memoir and the Lowell Thomas Award twice from the Society of American Travel Writers. She also teaches travel writing and speaks at conferences and universities. Her memoir Places in Time, published by Legacy Book Press, gathers tales from her unusual honeymoon, including stories set in Paris, Panama, and Australia. A revised edition is described on the publisher's site.