Describe some of the important experiences of your life:
becoming a widow at 34 and raising two little boys alone; spending four years in Africa
What's your biggest regret?:
Not having the courage to live my own life
List your most inspiring heroes.:
Helen Keller
Eleanor Roosevelt
George Washington Carver
List your favorite movies.:
"South Pacific", "Driving Miss Daisy", all Barbara Stanwyck movies, especially "The Maverick Queen", "Exodus", "To Kill a Mockingbird", all musicals
List the most recent books you have read.:
Stein on Writing
How to Grow a Novel
Soiled Doves (research for a novella)
Who are your favorite musicians?:
Glenn Miller, Jessye Norman, Rise Stevens, Bing Crosby, the Kingston Trio
Where would you most like to travel?:
Back to Europe, especially England and Austria, also Washington D.C.
What is your educational background?:
List the most interesting people you have known or met.:
I find everyone I meet to be interesting in some way.
What organizations do you belong to?:
If you had an extra $100,000 to give away, what would you do?:
Donate it to St. Jude's Children's Hospital and the organization SMILE that travels all over the world to reconstruct cleft-lip problems in children.
