My first memory of loving books was finding the Hardy Boys series at my local library in Huntsville, Alabama when I was six or seven years old. My life has been changed by many books since– Huckleberry Finn; Absalom, Absalom; The Power Broker; everything by Elmore Leonard and Hilary Mantel (even  the bad ones); In the Dream House; Hyena–but reading three Hardy Boys books in two days, then going back and getting three more is how it started. I’ve spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to write.

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