Photo Credit: Rachel Hofmeister
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BiographyWhen I was a kid I memorized stories from pop-up books and went door-to-door selling recitations for a nickel. I found out early that it’s a tough way to make a living. I kept doing it anyway, mostly because I wasn’t any good at anything else. I’ve done a little of everything since, including a twenty year stint writing television movies for ABC, CBS, HBO, NBC, and Showtime. One of them, an adaptation of E.L. Konigsburg’s Father’s Arcane Daughter (the movie was called ‘Caroline?’) convinced me that I saw and felt the world most clearly through the heart and mind of the kid inside me. When I turned sixty, I started writing novels for young readers. It’s the best decision I ever made. |
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