My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes childhood denver early
As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system. Anita Diament accesscomfortablefellowship Change image and share on social
There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America. Anita Diament adolescentamericagood Change image and share on social
I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying. Anita Diament difficultexplainfiction Change image and share on social
I had a group of Hispanic Americans come into my office in 1976 who worked in a Denver packing plant. They had just been fired by their employer who turned around and hired illegal aliens for a lot less money. That had a big impact on me. Richard Lamm alienamericanbig share on social
I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim. Juno Temple childhooddressfancy Change image and share on social
In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life. Ishmael Beah begincivilearly Change image and share on social