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Dutch Ink is the literary home of Mary Hilaire Tavenner, Ph.D.

   Dr. Mary Hilaire (Sally Lynne) Tavenner, author, educator and public speaker, has authored seven books and taught 3,000 students over the past forty years.  She has given many hundreds of talks.  Dr. Tavenner, a former Syracuse Franciscan nun for nearly 20 years, worked as a script consultant for a $3,000,000.00 docudrama, (A Time for Miracles), on the life of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, produced by ABC-TV and aired nationally in 1980.  As a direct result of almost 15 years of effort, in her hometown, of Lorain, OH, Dr. Tavenner, was instrumental in obtaining an elementary school in Lorain, to honor fellow writer, Helen Steiner Rice.  On October 14, 2007, citizens of Lorain dedicated this new elementary school at 4500 Tacoma Avenue, in honor of Helen Steiner Rice.  Helen was born and is buried in Lorain.

 Dr. Tavenner is a writer, public speaker and educator. She has authored numerous publications on topics ranging from convent life in the 1960s, Nun of This and Nun of That: Books One and Two, to the life of Helen Steiner Rice, A Portrait of Helen Steiner Rice: A Lorain Version, to a collection of short stories about popular French Saints and her two week odyssey in France, titled France,1996: Memoirs of a Writer in France. 

Soon to be released in the fall: 

My Friendship with St. Elizabeth Ann Seton.

Also just released MEMORIES OF MOM,  They Called her "Dutch".

An experienced public speaker, she speaks on a myriad of topics related to her publications and life experiences.

Click here for info on upcoming BOOK SIGNINGS & SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS.