Anne Kathleen Gray hails from London, England, with degrees in Music, Speech, Drama, an M.A. in English and Ph.D., in Human Behavior.  A professor of Music History, Keyboard, Choral Arts, Speech and Drama, her book, The Popular Guide to Classical Music, has been translated into several languages and can be found in all major Spanish-speaking countries.  Her landmark 1072-page definitive book, The WORLD of WOMEN in Classical Music, hit the world in 2007, in nomination for a Pulitzer Prize and an ASCAP Award.   Dr. Gray’s other books include the highly effective motivationals, Where Have You Been All Your Life? and How to Hang Onto Your Husband!  Juvenile works are two editions of the historical The Wonderful World of San Diego.  She has contributed to the Grolier Encyclopedia plus numerous magazine and newspaper articles including the Journal of the International Alliance of Women in Music (IAWM), Women of Note, American Harp Journal, Maud Powell Magazine, Mu Phi Epsilon Triangle, The Pen Woman (magazine of the National League of American Pen Women) and San Diego Union-Tribune.  Her Life as a Wife columns, rivaling humorist Erma Bombeck, ran in the San Diego Woman Journal.  In the performance field she is piano accompanist to her violinist son.

Winner of numerous literary, music, public speaking and writing awards, Dr. Gray is Past President of both the National League of American Pen Women, La Jolla Branch, and California South State Association; Past President of Toastmasters of La Jolla; member of the International Platform Speakers Association, American Association of University Women (AAUW), College Music Society (CMS), American Musicological Society (AMS), International Alliance of Women in Music (IAWM), National Museum of Women in the Arts, and Music Fraternity Mu Phi Epsilon, in which she has been elected to their ACME honor society.  She is listed in the Dictionary of International Biography, Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Musicians and Who’s Who in Music.

Anne has been married to the same man for an amazing number of years.  They have two handsome sons, one a teacher, one in the medical field.

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