Whose birthday am I celebrating?
February 17, 2016There’s no night without stars.
Andre Norton was born February 17, 1912 in my fair city. Born Alice Mary, she began writing when she was still a student at Collinwood High School. At Western Reserve University she was training to become a teacher. The Great Depression derailed those plans and she entered employment in the city’s public library system. I can’t help but think all those books in the young adult section had a formative influence on her prolific output. She initially wrote historical fiction, but her later works include fantasy, science fiction and even crime fiction.
Gunsmoke and Knitting 
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