Fredrica ParlettFredrica Parlett grew up in Pasadena, California, in the 1950s, the place and time of this novel. She graduated from Stanford University in 1961, magna cum laude, with a B.A. in Psychology. She married Beresford Parlett in 1960 and both her children ere born in Manhattan in the early 1960s. She was a student and cherished leader in the Gurdjieff Foundation of California from 1965 until her death in 2020. - - - The title of the book, Seekers of Truth, that Dr. R finds in Mme. de Beaufort's apartment is a fictionalized name for In Search of the Miraculous, an account by P.D. Ouspensky of his time with the teacher G.I. Gurdjieff. For more information, email info@gurdjieff-foundation-california.org . Read More Read Less