"I couldn't understand this lapse of attention on the part of the writers I loved, so until I could talk them into correcting this small problem, I wrote about those girls, the fearless, bold, athletic creatures that I was not, but wanted so badly to be." "He heard me telling myself stories as I did dishes, and he suggested that I try to write some of them down," Pierce says.īut Tamora's novels had one major difference: unlike the books she was reading, her stories featured teenaged girl warriors. It was thanks to her father that Tamora began writing. So Tamora read.Ī self-proclaimed "geek," she devoured fantasy and science fiction novels, and by the age of 12 was mimicking her literary idols and writing her own action-packed stories. But one thing they did have was plenty of books. We had a garden where my folks grew fruit and vegetables and our water came from a well," she explains. "We were poor, but I didn't know it then. Raised in rural Pennsylvania, the child of a "long, proud line of hillbillies," her family never had much. Tamora was drawn to books from a young age. Edwards award, Tamora has written over 30 books, including the newly-released TEMPESTS AND SLAUGHTER. A #1 New York Times bestseller and the recipient of the 2013 Margaret A.
Urn:oclc:679669282 Republisher_date 20120329223013 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120329082649 Scanner Pierce is a bestselling author of young adult fantasy books that break past the traditions of the fantasy genre to feature teenage girls as knights, wizards, and above all: heroes. Urn:lcp:realmsofgodsimmo00tamo:epub:c0b0cc9f-8b94-4073-bdf0-aa1d15a50bff Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier realmsofgodsimmo00tamo Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5n88bm9d Isbn 141690817Xĩ781416908173 Lccn 95052193 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL8457960M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:03:10 Boxid IA174501 Boxid_2 CH120301 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York DonorĪllen_countydonation Edition 1st Simon Pulse ed.
0 kommentar(er)
