Beverly Snavely was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, and graduated fro the Moody Bible Institute in June 1960. She began to study women in the Bible while young and working with an evagelistic movement in Europe, generaly known as O.M.. Betty married Peter Holt in 1974. After having brought up four children, she again prayerfully took up her pen to write Roses, Marys and Others. May God bless each person who reads this work.