Representing Jefferson County will be on television. [ applause ] my job tonight is to introduce the two people on the podium who will be conducting this conversation. Jane henderson is the book editor at the st. Louis post dispatch. She grew up in st. Louis and graduated from the university of missouri columbia with degrees in journalism and english literature. She cut short her grad student work to go to work as a copy editor for the st. Louis globe democrat in the mid1980s. After three years in the newsroom in connecticut, she returned to st. Louis and has been an editor and writer with the post dispatch features department for 30 years. She assigns and edits book reviews choosing from 300 or so new books each week. Shes written stories about book trends and interviewed many authors. Tonight she adds to that and she will be having a conversation with Caroline Fraser. Caroline fraser is the editor of the library of america edition of Laura Ingalls wilder, the little house books and t
Today. Great to see so many people out here, hungry for books. Toiling away in front of my moreter, dealing with electronics than live people. Of course im writing about history. The people im writing about our dead. Its nice to see live people. Engrossed in the kinds of things i and other writers here write about. I was fortunate to have grown up in a home that was filled with books. I grew up in yonkers, new york. A suburb of new york city, thousands of books, walls filled with books. As a little kid the sense of myks around me is one of most indelible memories of childhood. Remembering that is a tiny kid starting to climb i thought of the bookshelves which were floortoceiling as mountains i could climb up. My mother would find me five shelves up crying to get down again. Both my parents were fortunately great readers. My father was a self educated working guy. He installed boilers and heating systems. My mother on the other hand, had a degree in classics. She was a poet. A human rig
Listening toe other speakers and it is a privilege for me to be talking to you today. Great to see so many people out here hungry for books. We are toiling away in front of my computer dealing with more electronics than live people. Of course i am writing about history. All of the people i write about are dead. They cannot talk back. It is nice to see live people. So engrossed in the kind of things i and others write about. I was very fortunate to have grown up in a home that was filled with books. I grew up in yonkers, new york, with thousands of books all filled with books. The sense ofid, books around me is one of my most indelible memories of childhood. Remembering also as a tiny kid, i thoughtlimb about the bookshelves as mountains i could climb up and my mother would find me trying to get down again. Parents were great readers. My father was a self educated working guy in installing heating systems. My mother on the other hand had a degree in classics. She was a poet and seek hum
Ms. Fraser very busy for the last two days, and we have had a wonderful crowd turn out each time. We sold out of the book. Its been really satisfying to it has been really satisfying, and to have cspan here taping this to show on television is the icing on the cake. It is such a wonderful feeling to know something so positive representing Jefferson County will be on national television. My job tonight [applause] peoplentroduce the two on the podium who will be conducting this conversation. Jane henderson is the editor at book editor at the st. Louis postdispatch. She granted waited from the university it graduated from the university of columbia with degrees in journalism and english literature. She worked as a copy editor for the st. Louis globe democrat in the mid1980s, and after three years in the newsroom of the hartford post in connecticut, she returned to st. Louis and has been an editor and writer with their features department for 30 years. She has signed and edits edited book
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