de Guzman, Michael

When I was a kid, I made up stories and went door-to-door selling recitations for a nickel. I found out that it s a tough way to make a living. I ended up doing it anyway, including a twenty-year stint writing television movies. One of them, an adaptation of E. L. Konigsburg s "Father s Arcane Daughter" (the movie was called "Caroline?"), convinced me I was writing for the wrong crowd. I discovered that I saw and felt the world most clearly through the heart and mind of the twelve-year-old inside me. I decided to write for people my own age. When I turned sixty, I started writing novels about