Joan Noble Pinkham Author

Margaret Press is the author of the Salem-based mystery series featuring Detective Sergeant Gabriel Dunn. Raised in California, Press holds a doctorate in linguistics from UCLA and was an undergraduate at UC Berkeley. For a number of years she worked as a speech and language specialist at a Boston-area school for multi-handicapped children, before moving into computer programming. Press has taught courses in linguistics and acquisition of language in children. She currently works in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Joan Noble Pinkham is a native of the Salem-Marblehead area. She is a former broadcaster and the author of numerous articles, screenplays and documentaries. Pinkham heads her production company, Sea Coast Films. She earned a master's degree in communications from New York University.