Missing Kennedy (Pentacoff)

Author Bio
• Birth—1957
• Where—Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
• Education—B.A., California State University-Fresno
• Currently—lives in northern California


Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff is an American author of both fiction and nonfiction for children and adults. She wrote the instructional book, The ABCs of Writing for Children, which was a Writer's Digest Book Club selection. Her biography The Missing Kennedy: Rosemary Kennedy and the Secret Bonds of Four Women was published in 2015.

Personal life
Koehler-Pentacoff was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and grew up in nearby Oconomowoc. She moved to California as a teenager to attend college, graduating from California State University Fresno with a double major in children's theater and liberal studies.

In 1981 she married Robert Pentacoff. Before turning to freelance writing, she taught elementary and middle school and directed children's theater. When her son, Christopher, was young, she wrote stories for him, which led her to writing books for children.

Career
When Koehler-Pentacoff began writing children's books, she also instructed adult teachers through California State University, East Bay. She taught weekend classes of creative drama and improvisation and later taught writing for children and writing comedy through UC Santa Cruz Extension located in Cupertino.

She has worked with the California Writers Club |Mt. Diablo Branch's Young Writers Contest since 1995. (Adapted from Wikipedia. Retrieved 10/20/2015.)