It is a very inspiring book for both those who wish to become authors one day and those who do not. It shows readers what it takes to create something you can truly be proud of. This autobiography, is lined with themes of extreme perseverance and dedication. It shares details about her personal life, how she grew up, who she married etc and how that affected her as a writer. It tells how she plucked up her courage to write books. It tells about how she developed her skill in writing and how she managed to publish 5,000 short stories, but how 10,000 were declined and trashed.
It tells how she wrote short stories for a church newspaper. It tells about her childhood love for writing. How I Came to Be a Writer is an autobiography about Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's (author of the Shiloh trilogy) journey and experiences being an author.
The little dog haunted her so much that she had to write a story about him to get it out of her mind. "Shiloh" was inspired by a little abused dog she and her husband found. Naylor gets her ideas from things that happen to her or from things she has read. One of these books, "Shiloh," was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1992, was named a Notable Children's Book by the American Library Association and was also Young Adult Choice by the International Reading Association.
Phyllis has written over 80 books for children and young people. Her parents enjoyed reading stories to the children-her father would imitate the characters in Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer-and her mother read to them every evening, "almost until we were old enough to go out on dates, though we never would have admitted this to anyone."īy the time Phyllis reached fifth grade, writing books was her favorite hobby and she would rush home from school each day to write down whatever plot had been forming in her head - at sixteen her first story was published in a local church magazine. Though she grew up during the Depression and her family did not have a lot of money, Naylor stated that she never felt poor because her family owned good books. Her family were strongly religious with conservative, midwestern values and most of her childhood was spent moving a lot due to her father's occupation as a salesman. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor was born in Anderson, Indiana, US on January 4, 1933.
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