Grantham, Tamara

Tamara Grantham was born and raised in Southeast Texas. She comes from a family of writers. She took her first writing class from her uncle Larry Franklin, who worked as an author and literary agent at the time. At the age of fifteen, she received her first acceptance letter. Her uncle wrote, "Thank you for letting me read your short story, "The Quest for the Spear". I enjoyed it very much, and see that you have a talent that can be developed." In his Writing Fiction class, he challenged each of his students (which consisted of her two sisters and cousins) to write a novel. The challenge seeme...