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    Episode 6: Gail Carson Levine, Historical squeeze Fantasy Author

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    Here's the story so far.

    I grew up in upper Manhattan, Washington Heights to be exact, a hilly, pretty neighborhood. My family lived across the street from P.S. 173, my elementary school, and from a park where I used to climb what my friends and I called the "danger" rocks, which were part of the palisades that overlook the Hudson River. Going up, clinging to cracks with my fingertips, terrified, I'd think, If I live, I will never do this again. When I reached the top I'd work my way down and start over just as frightened as before.

    In high school, George Washington High, also in Washington Heights, I was cast as the female lead in George Bernard Shaw's Androcles and the Lion. The male lead was six-feet tall, and I was (and still am) not quite four-foot-eleven. The stage manager had to construct a system of platforms for me so the hero and I didn't look ridiculous standing side by side.

    From third grade through high school I wrote stories and poems, and a few of my poems were published in an anthology of student writing, but I never thought of becoming a writer. The authors of most of my favorite childhood books were dead (Mark Twain, L.M. Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, Anna Sewell). I knew a few artists because my dad owned a commercial art studio, and I saw actors in

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