Mary Sheeran is an award-winning novelist ("Banished From Memory," "A Dangerous Liberty," who has acted in plays, sung in operas and musicals, and created and performed in recitals and cabaret shows, all in New York City. Her other novels include "Banished From Memory" (Hollywood 1960) and "Who Have the Power," another novel set in the world of the Comstock Lode in 19th century Nevada. She grew up in New Jersey's farm country, graduated from St. Mary's College in South Bend, Indiana, and earned a Master of Divinity degree from New York Theological Seminary. Her most recent novel is "Idylls of the Collar."