Margot Abbott’s “The Last Innocent Hour” was first published as a hardback in 1991 by St. Martin's Press and as a soft back in 1995. It was translated into several languages. She has been a newspaper columnist, a social studies teacher and a library worker. For the past sixteen years, she has worked as a county clerk in Children Family Services.

Margot was born in Saudi Arabia where her father worked for the Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO). She got to travel with her parents all over the world, especially to Italy.

One of her most vivid memories is of visiting the divided city of Berlin the year after the Wall went up. On a tour of East Berlin, her father was especially careful to show her the square where the Nazi's burned books. A book lover himself, her father knew she'd be deeply impressed by this historical reality.

Margot lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and is working on her next novel.