My parents, along with my third grade teacher, Miss Wright, highly encouraged me to read as many books as I could during my “leisure time” (when I was not engaged in those other extracurricular activities that I have already mentioned), and encouraged my brother to do the same, equally supported by his teachers, during his freshman (and only) year at Anderson Valley High School. I suppose that this had a great deal to do not only with our voracious appetite for books, but also with our mutual passion for writing. In order to support us in this endeavor, as well as to contribute to our access to resource materials for completing school assignments, they purchased a set of Compton’s Encyclopedias, to assist both of us with our research; clearly, they had a strong stake in our academic and literary success. Their investment in my brother’s future eventually paid off, with all four of the books he authored on U.S. history being published to critical acclaim. My literary aspirations were another story altogether.
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