From: 811.52 at uwalumni.com <811.52>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:40:19 -0600

Here is something from "Stories Behind the Book", which appeared in Publishers Weekly on 10/22/2001 (pp. 24():
"In many ways, it is the book Taylor has felt most compelled to write. Even before she began her Newbery Medal--winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
(1976), she had attempted to write her great-grandparents' story but, she says, 'It wasn't coming; it wasn't right.'" It sounds to me like Mildred Taylor wanted to write The_Land for the longest time, but she's just not going to put something out here or there that isn't just so. She brings the perfect gift. Meg WI

Quoting Robin Smith :
Received on Mon 16 Feb 2004 02:40:19 PM CST