The Writer's Almanac from Saturday, March 16, 2013 "Piano, New York" by Julia Kasdorf, from Sleeping Preacher. © Pittsburgh University Press, 1992. ORIGINAL TEXT AND AUDIO - 2013 It's the birthday of Alice Hoffman, born in New York City (1952). Growing up, she thought that her brother was the smart one, and that as a girl she couldn't be a veterinarian or a writer, the two things she was most interested in, but should settle for life as a hairdresser. But she read a lot, and she said: "When I wasn't reading science fiction, I read a lot of fairy tales and anything to do with magic. I was crazy about Mary Poppins and the E. Nesbit books and Edward Eager. I really loved those stories that begin with a normal family and then all of a sudden, something magical enters their lives." After high school, she got a job in the Doubleday factory, but she hated it so much that she quit the first day and went to night school and on to graduate school to study writing. But she thought that the magical stories she had loved as a kid didn't fit into adult writing. Then she read
The Writer's Almanac from Saturday, March 16, 2013
The Writer's Almanac from Saturday, March 16…
The Writer's Almanac from Saturday, March 16, 2013
The Writer's Almanac from Saturday, March 16, 2013 "Piano, New York" by Julia Kasdorf, from Sleeping Preacher. © Pittsburgh University Press, 1992. ORIGINAL TEXT AND AUDIO - 2013 It's the birthday of Alice Hoffman, born in New York City (1952). Growing up, she thought that her brother was the smart one, and that as a girl she couldn't be a veterinarian or a writer, the two things she was most interested in, but should settle for life as a hairdresser. But she read a lot, and she said: "When I wasn't reading science fiction, I read a lot of fairy tales and anything to do with magic. I was crazy about Mary Poppins and the E. Nesbit books and Edward Eager. I really loved those stories that begin with a normal family and then all of a sudden, something magical enters their lives." After high school, she got a job in the Doubleday factory, but she hated it so much that she quit the first day and went to night school and on to graduate school to study writing. But she thought that the magical stories she had loved as a kid didn't fit into adult writing. Then she read