The Making of a Writer

About this book

Many of Joan Lowery Nixons readers have written to her to ask how they too can become published writers someday. This memoir including anecdotes and advice is her answer to them. From her first publication at age tena poem entitled Springtime in a childrens magazineto her graduation from Hollywood High during World War II Joan Lowery Nixon shares the incidents from her childhood that helped her to grow and develop as a writer. Listening to her favorite serial programs on the radio performing puppet shows at orphanages and hospitals and writing love poems for her high school classmates to send to soldiers overseas all planted the seeds from which a prolific professional career was born. Both informative and entertaining this is a charming look at one writers beginnings.