“And I’d write and rewrite just for myself. “I walked around with a huge binder filled with handwritten manuscripts,” she says. Although she didn’t achieve publication then, she did write several novels during that time. When she told him about Hinton and her accomplishments, he encouraged her to publish her first novel while still in high school. Her father was one of her most supportive cheerleaders. “When I discovered she’d written the book as a teenager and gotten it published, it made me realize that I could become a published author too,” she says. But asked what one book changed her life, her answer is unequivocal: S.
She was enthralled by Edgar Allan Poe and the Nancy Drew series, and in college she discovered Flannery O’Connor, Alice Walker, and Zora Neale Hurston.Įach of these writers has inspired and shaped her as an author. In elementary and middle school, she read Shakespeare, Aesop’s Fables, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, One Thousand and One Nights, James Fenimore Cooper, and many more.
Growing up in Raleigh, North Carolina, Esme Addison had access to her father’s collection of beautifully bound classic books.
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