Mavis Duke Hinton

Mavis Duke Hinton (B.A. in English and Secondary Education) has taught all grades of high school English and related subjects, including AP British literature, creative writing, speech, and journalism in her twenty-one-year career. Other pursuits have included editor and writer for various publications, including Liberty University, office administrator, and police officer. She has taught method workshops at Christian education conferences, Sunday School and Bible classes ranging from first grade to adult women, and spoken to Christian women’s groups. One of her favorite Bible verses is: “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty” (2 Peter 1:16). Raised in a military family, Mavis has lived in France and Germany, visiting countries such as Spain, touring Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg on camping trips with her family when her father was stationed in Europe. The family had the enjoyable experience of meeting and sharing meals with friendly Europeans along the way. She has also traveled across the USA and Canada, calling several states home: Ohio, Florida, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina (where she was born)—with Alaska being her favorite of all. Living on an Army base near Fairbanks and experiencing subzero weather, Northern lights, and snow-capped mountains, she loves cold weather and snow. She has incorporated these character-rich and varied experiences into her writing. Married for forty years, Mavis is the mother of two married daughters and grandmother of three grandchildren, three grandkitties, and one “granddawg.” She and her husband, Clark, adopted their own black-and-tan miniature dachshund, whom they named Duke. Duke was eight weeks old when he came home with them, and it took him only about a day to make himself at home in their house as well as in their hearts. (Duke is introduced in this novel.) Setting aside her teaching career of nearly twenty years to pursue her long-held dream of writing, Mavis enjoys writing from a dog’s perspective. Though I Am Dachshund is fiction, it’s based on Mavis’s real-life family and friends. With a special affinity for dogs—dachshunds in particular—a running joke in the family has been Ms. Hinton’s “interpreting” for others what dogs are thinking (their expressions and actions—tongue-in-cheek, of course), following in her late father’s humorous legacy for doing so. Mavis and her husband, Clark, also a teacher, make their home in North Carolina. Her hobbies include traveling, reading, writing, cooking, spending time with family and friends, and laughing.
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Books by Mavis Duke Hinton

I am Sarge: the Dachshund Escapades, Book 1
I am Dachshund: The Dachshund Escapades, Book 2