Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Elizabeth George Speare didn't publish her first book until she was a whopping forty-nine years old. Never say never, Shmoopsters. (Source.)
Speare's favorite editor said that the only change she ever had to make to The Witch of Blackbird Pond (another of Speare's books) was changing a comma to a semi-colon. Wow. (Source.)
Speare and another bookworm cousin met up at family reunions and read notebooks of stories the other had written, a tradition they continued through college. (Source.)