Biography in Books

Liz West

Books have always been important to me, and I still own many of my childhood books. Heidi was perhaps the first book I remember. It was read to me, and I identified strongly with it, since it was about a little girl who lived on the side of a mountain. We had a farm on the side of a mountain, and Heidi's meadows blended with mine in my imagination. Her haymow became mine, and my pine trees became hers. Tom Sawyer was also important for several reasons. It was a great story, it planted in me a lifelong interest in caves, and the illustrations were memorable. The book with the bat on the cover is titled The White Lady, and it was the first adult book I ever read. It was about bats, specifically an albino bat, and it helped deepen both my love of books and my love of nature. Finally, I've included one of the dozens of books that I've written. I was in my twenties before it ever occurred to me that I could write books as well as read them.

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