Early Years
Shamblin is a registered dietitian, consultant, and was an instructor of food and nutrition at the University of Memphis for five years. She also worked in the state health department for an additional five years. Before she started writing, she earned an undergraduate degree in dietetics from University of Tennessee, in Knoxville and then her master's degree in food and nutrition from the University of Memphis.
Shamblin and her husband David have been married for over 25 years and have two grown children and six grandchildren. Shamblin resides in an historic mansion known as Ashlawn built in the early 1800s in Brentwood, Tennessee.
Read more about this topic: Gwen Shamblin
Famous quotes containing the words early and/or years:
“We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universal ... that error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I then understood that a man who would have lived but one day could without effort live one hundred years in a prison. He would have enough memories to avoid getting bored.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)