Author: Deborah Sperberg
Born: 1939
Bio: <b>Deborah Sperberg</b> (b. 1939) is an American poet and naturalist, and former executive at IBM. Her works include <i>I Say Yes</i> and <i>After We Say Yes</i>.  She is a graduate of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://shimer.edu">Shimer College</a>, where she enrolled via <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.shimer.edu/academicprograms/undergraduate/earlyentrantprogram.cfm">early entrance</a> after her junior year of high school.  She subsequently served on the Shimer Board of Trustees and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://alumni.shimer.edu/s/1028/index.aspx?sid=1028&amp;gid=1&amp;pgid=252&amp;cid=1532&amp;ecid=1532&amp;ciid=4465&amp;crid=0">received</a> the school's Alumni Service Award in 2012.  She lives with her husband in a passive-solar home of her own design in Borrego Springs, California, where she serves as a volunteer naturalist with the Anza-Borrego Desert Natural History Association. (from <a class="text" href="http://shimercollege.wikia.com/Deborah_Sperberg#Brief_description">Shimer College Wiki</a>)