Julie McDonald Zander worked as an award-winning newspaper reporter and editor for twenty years before launching her personal history business, Chapters of Life, in 1999. (http://www.chaptersoflife.com/) Since then, she has published more than four fifty individual, family, company, and community histories.

Among her nonfiction titles are:

• Washington Territory’s Grand Lady: The Story of Matilda (Glover) Koontz Jackson
• Centralia College: Its People and Their Stories
• Bucoda: The Little Town with a Million Memories
• Chehalis: A Can-Do Community
• Legacy of Two Lumbermen: The History of the Hemphill-O’Neill Company
• These Walls Talk: Lewis County’s 1927 Historic Courthouse.

Since May 2007, Julie has written a newspaper column once a week for The Chronicle in Centralia, Washington. She also works as a freelance editor and book designer. She and her husband, Larry, have two grown children.