![]() ![]() ![]() 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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