Sheila Sharpe
About Sheila
Sheila Sharpe is an author, artist, psychologist, and a long-term mystery/thriller addict. As a therapist and struggling artist, Sheila began investigating the dark side of the art world, especially art forgery. This research plus Sharpe’s therapy with creative people led her to uncover why certain talented but traumatized artists became brilliant forgers. The answers, along with heart-racing suspense, can be found in her soon to be completed art crime thriller—Artist, Lover, Forger, Thief.
A painter and storyteller since early childhood, Sheila majored in art at Connecticut College and later was awarded an MFA degree in painting and film criticism from the University of California, San Diego. She also worked as an art teacher and social worker before earning a PhD in clinical psychology. Her first book, The Ways We Love (Guilford Press, 2000) resulted from her therapeutic efforts to heal broken relationships. The intense passions of love and hate unleashed during psychotherapy sessions fueled and inspired the writing of her current psychological art thriller.
Sheila lives in Del Mar, California, with her husband, Michael, a professor emeritus at UCSD. Mickey, Sheila’s beloved Coton de Tulear, always came with them on their daily walks by the sea. His joyous presence still scampers beside her but now only in memory.