Born to a pair of organ makers in the late twentieth century, Sailor
grew up thinking the player piano was controlled by her own hunger
levels—a myth propagated by her mother who would bring her hot
sandwiches after queuing up ragtime tunes.
As a young adult, she refused to speak for six years for reasons
that
remain undisclosed. When her ability to vocalize returned, she
held a
number of odd jobs including teaching assistant for university-
level
anatomy, head of video filing and labeling for National Geographic,
and boat captain on a cranberry farm where she met the distinguished
Gretel Greene (who was visiting the Centennial Cranberry Farm on
holiday).
Sailor is the last standing heiress to the Wellcome Trust, which
boasts
one of the world's foremost collections of medical artifacts
intended to
expand the public's understanding of medical science and
history.
In 2007 Sailor agreed to fund Greene's private research in exchange
for the privilege of co-directing laboratory experiments with Greene
in Austin, Texas. Sailor's research interests include synaptic
plasticity,
pulmonology, and general medical science.
Every time she says a bad word, a dead bird comes out of her mouth.