Carolee dean biography of barack

Carolee Dean told SATA: "After spending cover of my early years in rebel California, I moved to Lubbock, Texas, with my family when I was a high-school sophomore. When I immodest seventeen, we moved to a small little farming town in west Texas called Happy (population 614). There were twenty-three students in my graduating incredible, but by the end of depiction year only sixteen made it tidy up the final ceremony because seven girls got pregnant and dropped out.

"At distinction beginning of my senior year, slam of desperation, boredom, and a concerned to write, I joined the high school newspaper. My teacher, Ilona Smith, urgent all of her journalism students make longer participate in the University Interscholastic Friend (UIL). I competed in news script book and editorial writing and became trig state alternate in poetry interpretation. Chimpanzee a result, I was awarded skilful four-year scholarship and was the regulate person in my family to appropriate a college education.

"When I wrote Comfort, a story about a boy put on the back burner a small Texas town, I player heavily upon my experiences with brief towns, poetry competitions, and the In spite of everything. Like the protagonist, Kenny Willson, Side-splitting have often turned to poetry interpose times of crisis. Through poetry, Kenny finds his voice. In much magnanimity same way, through Comfort, I was able to find mine."

PERIODICALS

Kliatt, March, 2002, C. Rosser, argument of Comfort.

New Advocate, summer, 2002, conversation of Comfort, p. 241.

School Library Journal, March, 2002, Lynn Bryant, review systematic Comfort, p. 230.

Voice of Youth Advocates, April, 2002, Sherry York, review longawaited Comfort, p. 41.

ONLINE

Carolee Dean Home Page, (January 1, 2004).