Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Who knew?

Marshall Saunders, author of childhood favorite Beautiful Joe, was a woman--Margaret Marshall Saunders. She was Canada's first million-selling author.

She wrote a sequel, too--Beautiful Joe's Paradise.

Why didn't anyone ever tell me? And why don't the libraries here have this one?

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