Donna Wylie was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and now lives near the shores of Lake Wylie in Clover, South Carolina.
Wylie received her Bachelor’s degree in English and her Master’s degree in Human Development and Learning from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Wylie is the niece of Charles Sumpter Wylie. After, writing a story about her beloved Uncle Sumpter during a writing workshop, she decided that his life story needed to be told. She used family letters and historical records to show the many different facets of her late uncle’s life.