Mary Edwards Wertsch

Mary Edwards Wertsch, a seasoned investigative reporter and writer, was raised in a career Army infantry family. By the time she was 18 she had lived in three countries and 20 different houses. Currently she lives in the Midwest, where she continues to write and lecture about the military brat cultural identity she has been credited with identifying since this ground-breaking book was first published in 1991. Her current research extends her work on military families, the cultural identity of...See more

Mary Edwards Wertsch, a seasoned investigative reporter and writer, was raised in a career Army infantry family. By the time she was 18 she had lived in three countries and 20 different houses. Currently she lives in the Midwest, where she continues to write and lecture about the military brat cultural identity she has been credited with identifying since this ground-breaking book was first published in 1991. Her current research extends her work on military families, the cultural identity of military brats, and issues related to the larger group of Third Culture Kids (TCKs) including other kinds of mobile childhood. See less