A storyteller ever since she could talk, Carol Verburg worked as an academic and international literature editor before branching into playwriting, directing, and crime fiction as CJ Verburg.
Her long friendship and collaboration with the artist, author, and dramatist Edward Gorey inspired The Theatrical Adventures of Edward Gorey: Rare Drawings, Scripts, and Stories (Chronicle Books, October 2024). It also triggered her award-winning play Spin, or Twilight of the Bohemians, and her Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod mystery stories and novels: Croaked, Zapped, and Shafted, or The Toastrack Enigma.
CJ's other fiction includes her "Scandal at the Savoy" stories, set in a theatrical re-creation of Holmes and Watson's London, and her Cory Goodwin novels, starring a Boston journalist trained in investigation by her New York private-eye father.
A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, which staged her pioneering rock musical We Could Save the World, Carol Verburg is a member of the Authors' Guild, Sisters in Crime of Northern California, the Mechanics' Institute, the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples, and the Book Club of California.