She lived in Edgecomb, Maine. She also wrote as Cornelia Kidd.
Her books include the “Mainely Needlepoint Mystery” series.
https://sincne.clubexpress.com/content.aspx?page_id=2507&club_id=338034&item_id=2026&pst=9252
Excerpts:
Author Eleanor Sally Wait, a resident of Edgecomb, Maine known as Lea to her friends and fans, died at 1:00 pm EDT on August 9, 2019 in her home on Eddy Road, Edgecomb, Maine of pancreatic cancer. She was seventy-three.
Lea was predeceased last year by her husband, artist Bob Thomas. Her parents, George and Sally Wait, also predeceased her.
Lea was born in Boston, grew up in Edgecomb, Maine and Glen Ridge, New Jersey, graduated from Chatham College in Pittsburgh, and received M.A. and DWD degrees from New York University. For thirty years she worked as a public relations or strategic
planning manager for AT&T, while she was raising her four daughters, who she adopted as a single parent...
...Lea was one of the first single people in the United States to adopt internationally after laws changed in 1975, and for twenty-five years was active as an advocate for adoption, especially adoption of older children and adoption by single parents.
She founded Adoptive Single Parents of New Jersey, the largest organization of single adoptive parents at the time, and worked informally with agencies to help hundreds of children find homes with single adults and couples.
For forty years she was also a fourth-generation antique dealer, specializing in antique prints.
In 1998 Lea moved full-time to Maine and began writing fiction. She wrote three mystery series – the Shadows Antique Print Mystery series, the Mainely Needlepoint series, and the Maine Murder series (under the name Cornelia Kidd.) She also wrote a
stand-alone historical mystery for adults, one mystery for young people and seven historical novels for young people. Her book LIVING AND WRITING ON THE COAST OF MAINE told the story of her life with her beloved husband, and what it was really like to be
an author...
https://www.cozy-mystery.com/blog/a-sad-farewell-to-lea-wait.html
(short comments by fans)
https://www.leawait.com/
(the first page displays her mysteries from the last few years)
https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/wait-lea-1946
(includes her awards and a biography)
Excerpt:
"In Shadows on the Coast of Maine: An Antique Print Mystery, schoolteacher/antique-print dealer Maggie Summer visits friends in Maine who are renovating an eighteenth-century house. A series of curious disturbances plague the characters, and townspeople
begin circulating stories to explain the weird events. Maggie and a local named Will investigate."
https://www.google.com/search?biw=1284&bih=858&ei=0Q9YXorWKdmwytMPlbuZ2A0&q=+lea+wait+interview&oq=+lea+wait+interview&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i160.8430.10873..11068...1.0..0.113.1034.9j3......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i67j0j0i10j0i7i30j0i22i30.w69qk1hPSOo&ved=
0ahUKEwjKgoW7s_LnAhVZmHIEHZVdBtsQ4dUDCAo&uact=5
(interviews)
https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/lea-wait/
(complete list of books? - plus an article on her work)
https://www.fantasticfiction.com/w/lea-wait/
(book covers)
https://www.google.com/search?biw=1284&bih=858&ei=3Q9YXtmyIK-pytMP_MiRsA8&q=lea+wait+kirkus&oq=lea+wait+kirkus&gs_l=psy-ab.3...21061.22749..22972...0.0..0.99.806.9......0....1..gws-wiz.......0j33i160.1VLalcfX7Vk&ved=0ahUKEwiZldjAs_
LnAhWvlHIEHXxkBPYQ4dUDCAo&uact=5
(Kirkus reviews)
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/123108.Lea_Wait
(reader reviews)
https://www.centralmaine.com/2020/01/09/bushnell-on-books-thread-and-buried-and-in-maine-essays-on-lifes-seasons/
(about "Thread and Buried")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_Wait
https://www.google.com/search?biw=1284&bih=858&tbm=vid&ei=DRBYXv7kM8KuytMPyrevuAk&q=%22lea+wait%22&oq=%22lea+wait%22&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i8i30k1.4669.5515.0.5721.2.2.0.0.0.0.121.190.1j1.2.0....0...1c..64.psy-ab..0.2.188...33i299k1j33i160k1.0.87XwGnhAmxg
(videos - she appears in at least one)
WRITINGS FOR CHILDREN
Stopping to Home, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2001.
Seaward Born, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2003.
Wintering Well, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2004.
Lenona.
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