Summary: Sally Cisney Mann is the author of Yearning: A Memoir. Using the first thirty years of her life as material for her story, she covers those lonely and difficult years to reach the reader with the tale of her desperate search for family. “Sally Cisney Mann tells a powerful, moving, and unforgettable story of tragedy and hope, loss and love, suffering and triumph. Hers is a life shaped by sweeping events—economic and social dislocation from the Great Depression, World War II, and the war in Southeast Asia. All students of “war and family” should read this work, as well as those interested in the social history of women in America and in how we construct our individual identities when the world seems unwilling to cooperate." Sally earned a Bachelor or Arts degree from the University of Northern Colorado in 1960. She went on to take writing courses from the University of New Mexico. She taught in the public school system in several different states, teaching elementary school, and then high school English and Science. Sally is now happily married with four grown children and six grandchildren.
