Biography
Batya Gur was born in Tel Aviv in 1947 to parents who survived the Holocaust. She earned a master's degree in Hebrew literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Batya lived in Greensboro, NC, 1972 - 75, where she taught Hebrew studies to elementary students at the Hebrew Academy. Before writing her first detective novel at the age of 39, she taught literature in high school. Gur was also a literary critic for Haaretz newspaper. She died of cancer at the age of 57.
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