AUTHOR BIO

Mary Josephine Riddle was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1949 — the fourth child of what would become a family of twelve, raised by two of the most unconventional, courageous and complicated people mid-century America had to offer.

 She has spent the seventy-five years since becoming someone worthy of telling their story.

 A transformational author, educator, and lifelong truth-seeker, Mary's life has taken her across America — born in Pittsburgh, PA, raised in Florida and transplanted to Utah as a teenager to live throughout the intermountain west and Alaska — is a journey that mirrors in many ways the pioneer restlessness of her parents.

Her book Rebel Genes shows that like her parents John and Freda, she has never stopped moving toward something truer, something clearer, something more real.

 Her professional life has been equally wide-ranging — with a diverse list of jobs, places where she has lived and opportunities she has embraced from Businesswomen of the Year in Denver in 1974 to hosting events that included famous authors and visionaries like Muhammad Yunus all the while writing her memoir and healing her karmic ties.

 Her memoir trilogy Diary From The Last Days — chronicles forty years of personal transformation from what she describes as "a holocaust of the soul" to an unshakeable knowing of her own purpose as “a metamorphosis of the soul”.

 Her latest contribution is Rebel Genes that represents the completion of a different but parallel journey — not inward this time, but backward. Into the family that made her. Into the story she was born to tell. Supported by forty years of genealogical research, documented historical evidence, and the kind of emotional clarity that only decades of genuine inner work can produce, this book is Mary Josephine Riddle's most fully realized work.

 Her guiding purpose remains what it has always been — to be a witness to the healing power within, and a living example of what becomes possible when we finally, fully, tell the truth.