![]() ![]() At the age of twelve, she wanted to be an actress, a ballerina and a nuclear physicist. Her other interests were language, art, history, and science. Her favorite works were fantasy, fairy tales, historical fiction, humor, realistic fiction, and adventure. She was an avid reader from an early age and credits her love of reading for her writing career. In order to escape from her parents’ obsession with writing, Anne turned to books. It was like growing up in a twenty four hour, seven day a week writer’s boot camp. During the day, her parents endlessly discussed ideas, plot, and character, and before she was seven years old, Anne knew about revisions, first and second drafts, and rejection slips. The furious sound of typing was her childhood wake-up music. The first thing Anne heard every day was two big, noisy electric typewriters. Every morning in order to have writing time before their three young children awoke. Her parents wanted desperately to become writers and made themselves get up at 4:00 a.m. Quite a lot of Anne Mazer’s writing education took place while she was unconscious. ![]()
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