I learned to read when I was 3. By 7, I was already reading full chapter books like Harriet the Spy, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, and all The Little House on the Prairie books. When I was 11, someone asked me about my favorite authors, I answered: Dorothy Parker, John Cheever, and Somerset Maugham, particularly his novel Of Human Bondage.
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