![]() ![]() ![]() Funny and breezy, many featuring the indomitable Grandma Dowdel, these books are wonderful, light reads to be enjoyed over and over again. In the late 90s, Peck started writing primarily historical fiction for children, loosely based on his own childhood and family history growing up in Illinois during the 1930s and 1940s. When I explained how much I loved that book and that I had reread it many times, he was amazed that I had even found it and was touched by my love for it. I told him how I discovered his adult book This Family of Women while in middle school, about three generations of one family in San Francisco. I told him how much his books meant to me, especially Remembering the Good Times(now sadly out-of-print), which deals with the impact of a teen’s suicide on a trio of friends and which had a profound effect on me. Peck was one of the first authors I met when I started working at NYPL in 1998. ![]()
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