Nedra Tyre was born October 6, 1912, in Offerman, Georgia. She graduated with a master's degree from Emory University and soon found employment as a social worker, also holding jobs during her lifetime as a librarian, clerk, book reviewer, charity worker and an advertising copy writer. Tyre had been writing since adolescence, and her stories began to appear in print in the early 1940s. Her first hardback was a 1947 story collection, Red Wine First, a series of monologues based on her social work. This was followed by Tyre's first mystery novel, Mouse in Eternity, in 1952. She produced five more mysteries, but found herself without a publisher after her final novel in 1971, and returned to the short form in digests like Ellery Queen's and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazines. Tyre lived most of her life in Richmond, Virginia, and died there on July 11, 1990.