Biography of margret peterson
About the author (short version) – margaret peterson haddix!
About the Author
When my daughter was in third grade, she brought home a list one day that described what everyone in her class wanted to be when they grew up.
Biography of margret peterson
Most of the kids clearly picked the same jobs their parents held. But a few went for the fantastical. One kid said he wanted to be a spy; another was longing to be a professional dirt-biker; another saw himself as a future movie director.
And I looked at that list and thought, “Yep, I’m with the dirt-biker and the spy.”
Biography of margaret peterson haddix
I already had an older brother and a younger brother when my sister was born, and I was very, very happy to have another girl in the family.
As a kid, I also longed for a career that I didn’t actually believe real people got to do.
The far-out, only-in-your dreams career I wanted was to be an author. All the grown-ups I knew were farmers (like my dad) or nurses (like my mom), teachers or dentists, housewives or grocery store clerks, etc., etc. The only authors