Clearly, this is where I am meant to be.įor those just discovering your work, could you briefly summarize your back list, highlighting as you see fit? She told me to trust her, and I am so glad I did. My agent, however, felt it was, and at first I was hesitant, because I was worried about being pigeonholed and never being able to write anything else.
My first book, That Summer (originally published by Orchard Books, reissued by Viking Children’s Books in 2006) was actually the third book I wrote, and I just used a teen narrator because that was how the story came to me. I actually sort of fell into it backwards. What made you decide to write for young readers? I think a part of me still thinks it’s too good to be true. Still, it’s always been hard to call myself a writer. Again, I have great teachers to thank for that. Weir.) In school, writing was the only thing that really came naturally to me, but it wasn’t until college that I realized that I could do it for more than just fun. I’d sit there every day, writing my little stories about my dollhouse people, or the Revolutionary War (which I was obsessed with for most of fifth grade, thanks to my teacher, Mrs. I taught myself to type when I was about eleven, on a manual typewriter I set up on a little desk in our TV room. When I was little, I had a dollhouse I loved, and I made up an entire genealogy for the family that lived in it: personalities, marriages, divorces, everything. What about the writing life first called to you? At first, were you quick to answer or did you run the other way? I guess a lot more was happening than I realized.” Visit Sarah’s LJ. The entire time I couldn’t wait to get out and move on, and yet here I find myself, all these years later, spending a part of each day back in that world. I was not the greatest student, participated in no activities, and spent most of my time hanging out in my parking lot. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.
My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. I am the only one in my family with an accent. Sarah Dessen on Sarah Dessen: “I was born in Evanston, Illinois in 1970, but moved to North Carolina when I was three, so I’ve always considered myself a Southerner.
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