Lois Weisberg

Born and raised in beautiful Bucks County, PA, Lois has been both a voracious and veracious reader since childhood, devouring 40 to 50 books annually. Establising the goal of a formal education late in life, Lois graduated from Delaware Valley College, Summa Cum Laude, in 1996 prior to turning 50. A perennial supporter of the American Association of University Women, and attending as many AAUW book sales as possible, Lois is navigating her way through Modern Library's 100 Best Novels, the 95 Pulitzer Prize recipients for Fiction, 25 years of the Man Booker Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Awards for Fiction.

Formerly the US Business Manager for United Ropeworks- a major European wire rope and cable producer- Lois was responsible for processing, distribution, and product sales throughout the United States for more than a decade prior to retiring. In addition to her many interests at home, Lois has traveled extensively throughout the Caribbean, Western Europe, the Mediterranean, and most recently visited the 5 major cities of China.

"I've always loved books. My earliest recollection is pre-school. I would amuse myself by sitting in my little rocking chair with a book in my lap while my mother went into the basement to do the wash. I was neither the oldest nor the youngest of 5 siblings and as I grew up, at times when sufficient parental attention was lacking, I lost myself in books. Today, reading is as essential to my well being as eating and breathing.

My collection (1500 books) varies from classics: Austin, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Forster, Hemingway, James, Maugham, Mitchell, Rand, Proust, Steinbeck, Tolstoy, Wharton, and Woolf, to non-fiction: Roman, French, Greek, Russian, German and Jewish history, Holocaust survivor books, philosophy, psychology, and political science."