Authors: Betsy Byars
Byars speaking at Waterstone’s Booksellers in Newcastle, England, in the late 1990s.
Byars and Ed in front of their house in Seneca, South Carolina, where they have lived since the mid-1990s.
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The poem on page 38 is by Emily Dickinson.
The very short excerpts from poems on page 64 are by William Wadsworth, Keith Preston, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, respectively.
The longer excerpt of a poem on page 65 is by Robert Browning.
The poem on page 147 is by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Copyright © 1992 by Betsy Byars
cover design by Elizabeth Connor
978-1-4532-9419-2
This edition published in 2012 by Open Road Integrated Media
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