![]() ![]() Laurie's books for children and teenagers have attracted a lot of attention. After eight long, rejection-filled years, she has finally qualified as an overnight success. ![]() Working as a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer was a slight improvement, but she eventually quit to write books. She tried everything, including cleaning banks, milking cows and working as a stockbroker. She hit the real world with no idea of what kind of work she wanted to do. At Georgetown University, she majored in foreign languages and linguistics. ![]() Laurie Halse Anderson never intended to be an author. She skipped both her prom and graduation ceremonies and had a great time there. As a senior in high school, she was an American Field Service exchange student to Denmark, where she lived on a pig farm. This led to curiosity about foreign cultures. She loves librarians! One of her favorite books was Heidi. She tried to read every book in her school library, a heavenly place. Her favorite book is the dictionary, which is a good thing because she is a terrible speller. Laurie fell in love with words when her second-grade teacher taught her how to write haiku. ![]() She loved watching her father write poetry and reading the funnies on the floor of his office. As a little girl, she would pound away at her father's old typewriter for hours, writing newspaper columns, stories, and letters. Laurie Halse (rhymes with "waltz") Anderson pretended she was a polar bear when she walked to school through the snow of Syracuse, New York. ![]()
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