I’d been warned by my editor. She told me that as an older author I might have trouble finding an agent. She knew a Canadian agent who prided himself on never taking on a debut novelist over the age of 45. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Laura Ingalls Wilder
BLOOMERS AT LARGE: Good News, Bad News, and Biography
by Kaulie Lewis
But a darker side of Wilder’s semi-autobiographical children’s series is revealed in the new version of her first work, Pioneer Girl . . . This restored autobiography includes details and stories judged too adult for the Little House books. Continue reading
BLOOMERS AT LARGE: Looking Forward and Living Up
by Vicraj Gill
When self-described “46-year-old chump” Rod Dreher found himself facing a midlife crisis, he turned to the classics for succor—namely, Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy. Continue reading
In Her Own Words: Laura Ingalls Wilder
“It is necessary that we dream now and then . . . but when once the dream is dreamed it is time to wake up and ‘get busy.’” Continue reading
Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman Behind the Girl
by Alison Gazarek
It was after exposure to all these very modern experiences, at the age of 67, that Laura Ingalls Wilder decided to write books about her childhood Continue reading
The Joyful Mystery of Barbara Trapido
By Sue Dickman
The mystery, at least in the U.S., is why no one knows who she is. In my experience, to read Trapido is to want to read more Trapido and also to wonder why it is so hard to find the Trapido you so want to read. Continue reading
In Her Own Words: Tillie Olsen
by Vicraj Gill
“The fact that human beings do not put up forever with misery, humiliation, degradation, actual physical deprivation but act is a fact which every human being should know about. We are a species that makes changes.” Continue reading
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