# Ann Shulgin

ann shulgin (born 22 March 1931) is an American author and the widow of chemist Alexander Shulgin, with whom she wrote PiHKAL and TiHKAL. == Life and career == Laura Ann Gotlieb was born in Wellington, New Zealand to her parents Bernard Gotlieb, and Gwen Ormiston, and grew up in the village Opicina outside the Italian city Trieste; her father was U.S. Consul in these places, in Trieste for six years before World War II. Later in her childhood she lived in the US, Cuba, and Canada. She studied art and became an artist, married an artist and had a child, and they later divorced. She had two more marriages ending in divorce and had three more children.