![]() ![]() selling stuff) when she lived in Ogden, Utah. ![]() Martin, retired now, was a university professor, teaching theatre courses, English courses and speech, plus directing plays.Ĭarla says she began writing in earnest (i.e. She was married by her senior year, and eventually Martin and Carla had five interesting children. Papers were a breeze (refer to Miss D in the above paragraph), and Carla graduated with a degree in Latin American history. Miss D was a wicked hard taskmaster, but it occurred to Carla that if she did what Miss D said, and paid attention, she'd be a writer someday.īrigham Young University was a great place to go to college. "We wouldn't have dared not complete what she had assigned us," Carla said. She was the only teacher Carla ever knew who never needed a substitute when she was gone. To show how mean, she insisted that her students learn A LOT. Jones High School, Beeville, Texas), she got involved in journalism, which was a great thing, since JHS had an exemplary journalism teacher, Jean Dugat (Miss D), the meanest teacher alive. She admits to going through that awkward, poetry-writing phase. But Carla said it had a plot.Ĭarla was always writing something. It had a cover (she spent more time on the cover than the narrative), and consisted of two sentences. It was called The Old Mill, and she wrote it on her mother's Olivetti-Underwood typewriter. Carla has always said that she only writes the books that she wants to read, which has made this whole writing business extra fun. ![]()
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