Mom's Choice Award winner for When the Leaves Fall, Mary M. Nyman grew up in Clarksville, Tennessee, and graduated from Wheaton College and Boston University Graduate School. In 19...view moreMom's Choice Award winner for When the Leaves Fall, Mary M. Nyman grew up in Clarksville, Tennessee, and graduated from Wheaton College and Boston University Graduate School. In 1959 she moved to Wareham, Massachusetts, to teach and raise five children in a house overlooking Buzzards Bay, where she resides today.view less