A first-generation Sicilian-American, Marianne Rutter was born in Reading Pennsylvania, into a large extended Italian family. She attended parochial schools in Berks County and was the first in her immediate family to graduate from high school.   She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Bryn Mawr College.  

Moving to Boston in the mid-1970s, Marianne worked in book publishing for forty years, retiring in 2017. She and her late husband Matthew raised their two children in Essex County, Massachusetts.

Marianne is a political activist for progressive causes and candidates, and since 2008 she has held leadership roles in the Massachusetts Democratic party.

She is an avid traveler and an accomplished home cook.

Many of the pictures on her website are family photos.

Home Elsewhere is her first novel.

Learn more about Marianne Rutter here.