This website is dedicated to the works and projects of Monique Raphel High, an internationally known author with a fan base stretching across continents.  For decades now, Monique has been writing stories that have drawn readers to her through her finely tuned characterizations and intricate plots.

In the early Seventies, two writing groups in Pasadena scooped her up and made her welcome.  Often she attended with her young daughter in her arms.  Later, her neighbor heard her making noise on a clunky old IBM her husband had rescued from the basement at his office.  She spoke to her friend, a literary agent, who decided to give the young writer a chance by reading her work.  The agent was myopic, had false eyelashes, and was Hungarian.  Oh, and yes—she wore Qiana.  But she got Monique’s first book published!

Monique believes in writing without any screen between her and her readers.  “What you have to tell me matters,” she says.  She adores her fans and welcomes all their suggestions. 

Read about her work for Barnard College, where she spent four of the happiest years of her life.  Her new novel is set against that backdrop; she’s Reunion Chair for her class’s upcoming “Big Reunion” in June 2009.  Monique’s pet charity is women’s education.