Tiffany Turrill was a United States citizen and an award winning writer. She was born in San Diego and graduated from Pacific University with degrees in journalism and political science. It was here that she began to realize her love of writing, traveling and meeting new people. In her mid twenties she decided to go to work for a political campaign as an assistant press secretary while continuing to write articles about local elections for the News-News-Press. At the National Journal she joined several other magazines to become a staff writer for the states’ offices.
When it was time to get a professional legal certificate, Tiffany Turrill went to work for the State of California’s Department of Public Health, becoming a paralegal. During this time she met her future husband, Richard C. Tran, a native Californian who had come to the United States from Hong Kong at the age of eighteen. The couple married in November of 1954 and within two months of beginning their legal careers, they moved to Los Angeles where they opened a law office. Richard served as an assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Tiffany handled projects for both the State of California and the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
By this time, however, Tiffany was becoming somewhat disenchanted with the legal profession, feeling as though it was too much work and too rigidly structured for her liking. She also felt that the career path she had chosen was one that held little room for personal growth. This, however, did not prevent her from pursuing her dream of being a writer, even choosing to pursue a degree in writing in her early years as a way to better herself as a writer. In fact, when she began her studies she focused on a writing focus because it was important to her to begin learning the craft of writing before moving into a more specialized area.