Life
Cynthia Voigt was born Cynthia Irving February 25, 1942, in Boston, Massachusetts. She graduated from Smith College in Massachusetts and worked in advertising in New York City. In 1964, she married and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she started teaching. She taught second grade (and one high school English class)at the Key School in Annapolis, Maryland, from 1966 to 1971. After divorcing in 1972, she taught high school English in Glen Burnie, Maryland,. She began writing again and remarried in 1974, to another teacher of English, Walter Voigt, and is the mother of two children, Peter and Jessica.
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