After growing up in southern Alabama, Grey Benson went to Washington DC to serve in Civil Service during World War II. In 1943 she was married to Harry Clayton Miller. They lived in nearby Fairfax, Virginia, where their two sons were born. In 1952, a family business, in which Grey was active, took them to Rochester, NY.

In the Sixties, Grey, divorced in 1959, was in that early group of mature people who later became a flood of older Americans going to college. She entered the University of Rochester as a freshman when she was forty, and was graduated (With Distinction) in June, 1968, with a degree in General Studies, and permanent certification to teach English in the State of New York. One month later she and Charles Tate were married (after courting during her senior year). They lived in Rochester until Charles retired from Eastman Kodak in 1976, when they moved to Kentucky to be near family.

Charles and Grey enjoy their combined families of five children, eleven grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren -- they use e-mail and a lot of travel to stay in tough with them all! They are active members of Second Presbyterian church, where Grey is an elder, and they both volunteer at Helping Hand, an Alzheimer day center, and in Meals-on-Wheels.

As she began her brother’s story, Grey took some graduate level writing courses at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, and continues to take classes as time permits. She and Charles have traveled widely, are avid bird watchers, and are thoroughly enjoying retirement life. However, Grey had to take quite a bit of time out of retirement to write this, her first book.