2 Quotes & Sayings By Ad Orbit
A.D. Orbit was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on October 30, 1939. At the age of sixteen she began writing poetry for local magazines and had her first poem published in "The Honolulu Daily Star." During her junior year of high school she was inspired to write a story about a young woman who discovers her true love while serving in the Navy during World War II. That story became "Sweethearts," and it was published in "The Honolulu Daily Star" under the pen name "Sylvia Modell." She graduated from high school in 1958 and went to the University of Hawaii at Manoa where she completed her bachelor's degree in English in 1961
She worked as a high school teacher and English and speech teacher for nine years before enrolling at the University of California at Berkeley for graduate work in 1966. She earned a master's degree in education from U.C.C. Berkeley in 1967 and taught English, speech, and drama there until 1972 when she received an award to finish her doctorate at U.C.L.A..
She received her doctorate degree in 1973 and taught at the University of Texas at Austin for one year before leaving to become an assistant professor at California State University at Fullerton for three years where she completed her dissertation on the feminist theory of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, titled "Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Feminist Theory." In 1980 she became an associate professor at California State University at Long Beach where she remained until retirement in 2000 when she moved to Ojai, California with her husband, Robert Remini, author of Worlds Without End: A History of Planet Earth (2003).