The FBI Wife
“My river’s life echoed my own as I searched, manipulated, pressed on, gave up to finally reach a place I hadn’t been before.”
I married Cliff Browning on August 23, 1958, two days before my twentieth birthday. I buried him on December 12, 1984, our oldest son’s twenty-third birthday. During those twenty-six years we lived in the same house, shared the difficulties inherent in a marriage and slept in the same bed. Over those years I increasingly questioned if it’s possible for one person to completely understand another. (A quote from a prologue I originally wrote for The FBI Wife)
Fractured
“Readers will be swept away by FRACTURED, a timeless coming-of-age novel with an unforgettable heroine. Set in the 1950s, the novel evokes a more innocent time, but Sandra Windsor has a few plot twists up her sleeve that show the darkness hiding behind even the most perfect-seeming family. Windsor is a masterful storyteller with remarkable insight into the human condition. This novel is full of heart.” Shana Kelly, Editor
About the Author
Writing and teaching are Sandra’s passions. She has a lifetime of experience in both. In 2016, she published her award-winning memoir, The FBI Wife, taking the reader through the tumultuous years of the 60s and 70s from the Kennedy assassination, Dr. King’s march to Selma and the war on organized crime. Sandra relates this story as an insider looking out and an outsider looking into life as it is lived as an FBI wife.
In 2021 Sandra published her first novel, Fractured, the story of a perfect 1950s Michigan family: executive father, trophy wife and two daughters until a move rips the scabs off the marriage and fractures the family structure. In this story, the teen-aged protagonist and her traditional mother travel parallel paths as they search for solutions to what they perceive as their ruined lives.
Sandra’s work has been recognized by the Colorado Author’s League for best creative non-fiction and by Colorado Independent Publisher’s Association for best work involving family relationships. Previously, she was awarded by Writer’s Digest for her short story, “Forty-two Dodger Blue.” She is currently working on her second memoir focusing on how events of one’s past influence one’s present. If time allows, she has outlined a novel, once more addressing complicated family dynamics.
She has recently created a publication on substack.com called Scribbles. Here she posts weekly pieces focused on living a productive and meaningful life.
Sandra participates in workshops and conferences and book clubs throughout Colorado and the country. She supports her writing community with memberships in Lighthouse Writers Workshop, Colorado Authors League, Denver Women’s Press Club, CIPA, and Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. Recently retired, she has the pleasure of working with other writers and enjoying the Colorado lifestyle with her writer husband.
