Infidelity: A Love Story - Softcover

She obtained her MSW degree from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland in 1966 and worked in school systems, protective service, womens prison, child guidance clinic and helped run a poverty program for the city of Cincinnati before starting her private practice in Ann Arbor in 1977. In 1986, her peers in Michigan voted her Social Worker of the Year. Under her married name Ann Pearlman Hinton, she co-authored Getting Free: Women and Psychotherapy, (Grove Press, 1982) which has been used both as a consciousness raising touchstone for the feminist community and as a college text book.

Her book, Keep the Home Fires Burning: How to Have an Affair with Your Spouse, was published by Simon and Schuster in 1985. Following her authors tour, which included stops on Oprah, Donahue, Sally Jessie Raphael, she was asked to return by both Oprah and Sally.

As her marriage of thirty years desolved, Ann began writing a memoir that, over the next four years, became Infidelity: A Memoir. The book is a beautifully-written and frank account of her experiences and the legacy of adultery throughout her life.

Anns short stories have won literary prizes. She has studied fiction writing with Nicholas Delbanco at the University of Michigan, has attended workshops at Sewanee where she worked with John Casey and Ellen Douglas, and Squaw Valley where she worked with Al Young. Anns metal sculptures are shown in several galleries. She also writes a monthly column called Millennium Families for Ann Arbor Parent.

Ann continues her private practice as a psychotherapist and marriage and family therapist. She lives in an oak and aspen forest with her teenage daughter.