She raised four sons, who have given her eight grandchildren. She is active in the town of Needham, Mass. where she is a Library Trustee and Town Meeting member. She devours words, reads fiction avidly, her favorite living writers being Wiliam Trevor, Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy, Ian McEwan, and Margaret Atwood. She has been writing short stories for ten years, had one published in a South African literary journal, and published her first novel with 1st Books Library last August. Lois and her husband live happily in Needham.