Bourne Morris

After Bennington College, Bourne worked at McCall's Magazine and then went to Ogilvy and Mather, New York during the Mad Men era. David Ogilvy and his colleagues treated her wonderfully, promoted her several times and then sent her west to become head of their agency in Los Angeles.In 1983, she joined the University of Nevada Reno as a full professor in Journalism where she taught until 2009. She learned about campus politics when she served as chair of the faculty senate. She retired to write mysteries about brave women who have to fight major adversaries to help others and to succeed in their careers. .