I can pinpoint when I decided to become a writer: the day in 1967 when I pulled one particular novel off a shelf in the Albany (N.Y.) Public Library. I was eight years old. Read more...

When I was in second grade, my eyeballs betrayed me. I was cursed with myopia and thus burdened with the schoolyard equivalent of a scarlet letter: glasses. Read more...

While many of my friends went to summer camps or long trips to visit grandmothers who lived near Disney World, books provided me with the armchair travel my three-dollar allowance wouldn't allow. Read more...

A few years ago, after being a reader and a writer for many years, I contracted Lyme disease, and before I knew what to call it, it had invaded my body. Read more...

I can remember the exact moment I knew I wanted to be a writer. Read more...

Reading while we're young allows us to test our identities and determine what type of people we want to become when we group up. Read more...

The Duggar family really places a high value on reading, as it opens our eyes to people and places beyond our everyday experiences. Read more...

I like to write historical novels about strong women who flout the status quo. Read more...

When I was growing up, my mom read to me and my sisters every night before bedtime. Some of my earliest memories in life are of us little girls, squeezed all together on the couch next to mom, hanging on every word Read more...

I've been reading aloud to my son since long before he was born eight months ago Read more...