With a biting desire and need to write, Pamela Klein studied journalism in grad school, and became an editor at the LA Weekly when it was the largest alternative newspaper in America. She toured and explored the Caribbean, where she wrote about race and culture for various travel and literary magazines, and composed her first novel while living in St. Thomas. She has been collecting vintage dresses and jewelry for over 30 years and now lives near strawberry fields beside the sea in Oxnard with her husband and mini doxie Diggity. She scours the gold coast for heirlooms, relics and collectibles whenever she can, practices yoga, gardens and grows herself continuously in the liberal California sun. 17 Dresses is Klein's second novel.
