6/19/2023 0 Comments Weeping Willow by Ruth White![]() ![]() Also, while I was a student at Pfeiffer College, I was influenced by a writer named Heather Ross Miller. ![]() Writing was just a natural thing it just seemed to happen naturally. In college I took all the writing courses I could take, which weren't many. In high school I wrote short stories and all of us would read them. ![]() I remember doing that also when I went to Vansant Elementary. I was writing stories and plays and we used to act them out there in that little school in Little Prater - like in And I started writing stories in school in the second or third grade as soon as I could write. My mother always read to me even after I was able to read for myself. ![]() I remember making up stories, and I loved having my mother read to me. When I was a little girl living in Jewell Valley, I began creating stories. White, a full-time librarian for the Association for Research and Enlightenment Foundation (A.R.E.) in Virginia Beach, found time to talk with me about her writing.Ĭould you talk about influences on your writing career and how you began writing? On the afternoon of October 22, 1993, only hours after finishing the final chapter of her upcoming young adult novel. , a story about friendship, love, pain, and coming of age also set in Southwest Virginia. , a poor girl's story about growing up in Southwest Virginia, where White herself grew up (currently translated into German, Dutch, Afrikaan, and Japanese) and Ruth White is the author of three books for young adults: ![]()
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