LaVyrle Spencer, lives in Stillwater, Minnesota, just outside Minneapolis with her husband of 36 years Dan. They live in a beautiful Victorian house. They were high school sweethearts. Dan is a retired estimator for a general contractor. LaVyrle's hobbies include gardening, travel, gourmet cooking, entertaining, playing bass guitar and the electronic piano, photography, and observing nature.

In her thirties, she was working as a teacher's aide at Osseo Junior High School. She started working on her first novel, The Fulfillment, and it was published in 1979. Her publisher mailed her a $2,500 advance. She was inspired to become a writer when she read the book The Flame and the Flower by Kathleen Woodwiss.

Several of her books have been made into movies. Home Song, produced by CBS-TV, starring Lee Horsley, Polly Draper, and Deborah Raffin. Family Blessings, stars Lynda Carter, directed by Deborah Raffin and Nina Foch. The Fulfillment, a CBS-TV movie starring Cheryl Ladd, and Morning Glory, which Spencer wrote in 1989, was released as a major motion picture, starring Deborah Raffin and Christopher Reeve. LaVyrle and Dan appear as extras in the film.