Susie Davidson / brookline@wickedlocal.com The Oxford Dictionary’s words of the year for 2020 include blursday, doomscrolling and infodemic, said author Cynthia Levinson. Time Magazine’s include the first two of these, as well as social distancing and quarantini, she added.
But Levinson s personal word of the year is hunker. Because that’s what I did hunker at home from March 14, 2020, the date of my last trip-of-the-year to a grocery store, until Jan. 8, 2021, the date I was unblinded by the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine trial, she explained.
Levinson writes mostly nonfiction for kids, and spent almost all of her hunkering time writing. Fortunately, writing entails a lot of seat-in-chair, she said. So, staying home was actually conducive to getting work done.
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Grace Lin was early to champion diversity in childrenâs literature
By Victoria Zhuang Globe Correspondent,Updated January 28, 2021, 6:00 a.m.
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Growing up, Grace Lin longed to find role models she could emulate in her career. âI found parts of them, but I never found one person. Erin Clark/Globe Staff
For best-selling childrenâs book author and illustrator Grace Lin, 2020 was the first in many years she didnât spend touring libraries and schools across the country.
âCareer-wise, itâs been really interesting because I usually travel quite a bit. And now Iâm not traveling at all,â she said in a recent Zoom interview from her home in Northampton.