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CSPAN2 2011 Tucson Festival Of The Book March 14, 2011



whatever. you find yourself 18 years old then. i grew up in a small new hampshire town and always wanted to get out of the town. i wanted to hit the big city. i was always writing. at 18i think i understood that there was only one subject about which i was fully equipped to right, and that was my own life. so i began writing young as my ticket out of new hampshire. what proved to be my one and only a year of college. i sent a letter to the editor in chief of the new york times saying how would like to write for you. interestingly he wrote back and said okay. he also understood that there was only one topic i was an expert on. he said why don t you write about growing up in the 60 s. that became a cover story in the new yorkte in the good and a troubling ways and altman they lead to publishing that book before i got too old. they were rushing me they did not want me to be 20. [laughter] none of us are 20 now but i wrote this book expecting to fly after another but ....

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CSPAN2 2011 Tucson Festival Of The Book March 13, 2011



i am absolutely thrilled to have these three authors here with us. as a child of the 60 s about 40 years ago i remember the political action of mark rudd at columbia, and i remember reading joyce maynard and 18 year old looks back on life on the front page of the new york times in 1972. and martha tod dudman has been my friend for more than 20 years. so i would like to a just briefly introduced the panelist, and then we will get started. joyce maynard, immediately to my left grew up into new hampshire and now lives in marin county. her book that came out of that new york times magazine piece is at the ten at looking back: a chronicle of growing up old in the sixties . i had this book. it has been with me a long time. joyce has ridden the second memoir called at home in the world which was written in 1998 and updated last year. in the middle of our panel is martha tod dudman who lives on mount desert island, maine or as we call it, mount desert island. she has been in ....

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