![]() ![]() Heading that list is Sir Winston Churchill, the prolific writer and leader of Britain in the dark years of World War II. ![]() ![]() Her literary tastes are widely varied, and she has a long list of favorites. Sam Jackson, her beloved literature teacher, soon noticed Jean's preoccupation and took it upon herself to make weekly trips to a nearby college library to exchange a selection of books to satisfy Jean's reading needs.Īnd today? When not absorbed in writing or the business of being a celebrated author, she reads and reads, maybe a book a day-literary success has enabled her to buy many books no longer selected by the number of pages. Therefore she searched the bookshop to find the book with the most pages.Īt school Mrs. ![]() She not only wanted a good read, she wanted a book that would take a long time to read, to expand her reading pleasure. At fourteen she started her book collection when she bought her first book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer-an unusual choice for a young girl from the Deep South. By the beginning of her teens had read every book in the school library. From the time she learned to read, she was a voracious reader. Jean Sasson grew up in a tiny town of only 800 people in American's deep south. ![]()
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