Margery Hutter SilverMargery Silver's first career was as an editor for the Atlantic Monthly and several Boston book presses. Her second was as a clinical neuropsychologist. After her retirement, she began to write poetry and found a third "career" that she loved. Her poms have been published in Paper Nautilus; Third Wednesday; Muddy River Poetry Review; Journal of Undiscovered Poets; Ibbetson Street Press; and The Somerville Times.. Her poem "Small Outcry" was featured in the Hidden Poetry contest by Poetry in Place, Newton, Massachusetts. Living to 100: Maximizing Your Potential at Any Age, which she coauthored with Thomas T. Perls, MD was chosen in 1999 as Best Book of the Year by the Gerontological Society of America. Margery Silver grew up in a coal-mining town in Northeast Pennsylvania, tucked into a valley surrounded by beautiful mountains. She attended Barnard College, graduated from Simmons College, and earned a master's and a doctorate in Counseling and Consulting Psychology from Harvard University. She completed a Clinical Fellowship in Neuropsychology at Westwood Lodge and Massachusetts Mental Health Center and then became Associate Director of the New England Centenarian Study at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where she was Assistant Professor of Psychology. When the New England Centenarian Study moved to Boston Medical Center, she was appointed Assistant Professor of Neurology at Boston University. She has served as Co Editor of the Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Lasell Village. ......She now lives residing in Auburndale, Massachusetts, with her two daughters nearby. This has given her the priceless gift of being close to her four grandsons as they have grown into adulthood. Read More Read Less