![]() People would ask me and I wouldn’t know what to say. Some kids were counting the numbers of authors they met and telling all their friends, “I’ve met two!” or “I’ve met four!” I wasn’t. I never actually thought too much about authors, since I was so accustomed to being around them. My mom writes poetry and creative nonfiction and my grandmother worked for newspapers and wrote feature stories. My grandmother, Elizabeth Williams, was also a writer as is my mom. On my mom’s side of the family there are lots of writers dating back to the late 1800s when my great-great-great grandfather Edward Eggleston published many history books and some novels. Finally, after 15 or 16 books, she’d get me in bed. At night my mom would finish the last page of a book and say, “time to go to bed.” I’d always reply with “one mo” which meant “one more.” It was one of the first phrases I learned to say and my mom couldn’t say no so she read one more book. ![]() Even when I was a toddler, my mom would read and reread books to me, and then from memory I would tell them back while looking at the pictures. My vision for writing books started when I was very young. ![]()
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