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About meI spend my days playing roles, some real and some imaginary.

In the morning, I’m mother to a young daughter whose favorite saying is, “Oh, man!” I’m a wife fixing lunch for her artist husband.

When my family leaves for school and work, I’m a twelve-year-old girl who travels by ship in 1524 from the Old World to the New, searching for her kidnapped father. Or I’m sixteen, and living in the tenements of the Lower East Side in 1906, hired to hunt down the source of a typhoid epidemic. Some mornings, I’m black, or I’m white, I’m a man, or a woman, or a child. I spend my days seeing things through many pairs of eyes, sensing through touch, sound, taste, and smell worlds outside my own. I work hard to make them mine, to understand them, so I can share these worlds with readers.

I’ve always written, though I traveled down other paths before settling on being a writer. I was an actor who disliked being looked at. I was a journalist who didn’t like pressure. I was an editor who longed to write fiction. In 1996, I left New York City to spend four years in Prague; there, I completely committed myself to this strange, but necessary profession of writing.

When I’m not writing, I do other things. I read (mostly to learn from the experts), I watch PBS news, I surf the Net. I take long walks in parks and marvel at nature. I count my money (this doesn’t take long!), and pay my bills. And finally, at night, I soak my feet and dream up the roles I’m going to play tomorrow.

About my librarySuttree by Cormac McCarthy, God of Small Things by Arundati Roy, The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey

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Member sinceMay 15, 2009