I hope you all had a great summer and read a lot of wonderful books! On Nantucket, we had a hot summer and no rain. It was hard on our lawns, but the flowers grew.
The MOST EXCITING NEWS is that my new novel, , comes out May 2, 2023!
Sometimes the separation between fiction and autobiography is as thin as gossamer. In 1983, after I met Charley Walters, I rented a house for a…
Isn’t my new book beautiful? So many people help me with so many parts of it, and I thought you might like to meet some…
In 1978, Tillie Olsen published a non-fiction book called Silences, where she shares a survey proving that then—in 1978—one of every 12 published writers were…
It was a glorious occasion when my first novel, Stepping, was published by Doubleday in January, 1980! If you want an idea of just how…
I’ve always said that I wanted to write books about real women’s lives. I’ve wanted to include the dirty dishes and the endless day when…
In the summer of 1995, Ariel, Wyatt, Sheila and Nick come to Nantucket to work for the summer. They’ve just graduated from college and the…