Marjorie Johnson taught mathematics for twenty-five years before she became a pilot, and she published ninety mathematical papers (as Marjorie Bicknell-Johnson: check out Google) before she wrote a novel. She also has served on the Editorial Board of The Fibonacci Quarterly, a mathematics journal devoted to number theory. Marjorie had dreamed about writing fiction for years; she joined Edie Matthews’ creative writing class five years ago and California Writers Club shortly thereafter.

Marjorie’s novel, Bird Watcher, traces an airplane stolen from Palo Alto Airport. When Jerry Christensen’s Cessna disappears from its tie-down at Palo Alto Airport—a small white airplane with a thousand clones and a hundred places to hide—Air Traffic Control can’t help. Jerry uncovers a terrorist masquerading as a bird watcher, but the FBI agent doesn’t believe him. Jerry, a schoolteacher, is unsuited to pursue a criminal but determines to catch the thief himself. He acts on hunches and makes outrageous plans—his imagination and his background as a pilot his only weapons against serial aircraft thefts and a conspiracy against Hoover Dam. 

Bird Watcher is available on Amazon.com and also from Infinity Publishing at  www.bbotw.com , the website for Buy Books on the Web. Contact Marjorie at marjohnson@mac.com.

Marjorie and her husband Frank fly their own small airplane out of Palo Alto Airport, the setting for Bird Watcher. Like many other pilots, Marjorie learned to fly in a Cessna 172.