And, I promise, I'm enjoying them as much as my 13-year-old. She was incredibly prolific, yet I managed to miss all of her middle grades and YA books, at least when I was the age that I would have sought her reads. All the photos I have found of her depict an exceptionally thin woman as well, and I wonder if she ever wasted time on meals, either. Seriously, this woman must have ignored every human being around her, as she cranked out novel after novel after novel. Zilpha Keatley Snyder was an American writer who had an almost inexhaustible writing career. Now I'm hoping Zilpha Keatley Snyder's ghost shows up, too. Probably.Īll I know is that I am in that same weird position again. Was this because Shirley Jackson's work leaned toward the supernatural? I don't know. No, more specifically: I wanted to hang out with her ghost. Let me clarify: I did not wish to raise her from the dead and sit with her, and learn from her (a natural feeling I have, with several beloved authors). When I discovered Shirley Jackson's work, a few years back, I had the unique experience of wanting to find her ghost somewhere and coax her back to my house for visits.
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