Mary Ann Winkowski

Mary Ann Winkowski (born 1948) is an American television personality whose paranormal experiences are the basis for CBS's Ghost Whisperer, on which she was also a paid producer. At the time the show began, she was often paid to attend funerals to help relatives have one last conversation with a loved one. Since the show's release, Winkowski has published five books: two non-fiction books, When Ghosts Speak and As Alive, So Dead (2011); two novels with Maureen Foley, The Book of Illumination (2009) and The Ice Cradle (2010); and a cook book, Beyond Delicious (2011), with David Powers.

Winkowski was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1948. She says she began seeing ghosts as a toddler, around the time her younger sister was born.

As of 2011, she lived in North Royalton, Ohio. She is a breast cancer survivor and has two children.

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