Mary Ann Shaffer

Mary Ann Shaffer (1934–2008) was an American writer, editor, and librarian with a lifelong dream of publishing a novel. Her interest in the German occupation of the Channel Islands began during a visit to Guernsey in the 1980s. This experience later inspired her debut novel, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. As her health declined, she asked her niece, Annie Barrows, to help complete the book. Shaffer died shortly before its publication in 2008.