Doreen cronin biography
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I let her talk.
RVC: Your dual-career story reminds me a good bit of John Grisham, who also moved from a successful legal career to a successful writing one. When teachers and classrooms started sending me letters at the law firm, I knew I was going to have to make a choice. I loved how tangible writing seemed back then. Which of them do you feel is most like you?
DC: Ha!
Duck and Worm. Thank you Mrs. Cooper!
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I Am Woman — Penn State graduate Doreen Cronin
The Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State recognizes women in the arts. The industry is still doing some soul-searching as a result. It was extra homework, but I loved it.
So when he bothered her, she would call him a pest and then…name the pest. So, “You’re so annoying, you’re like…a worm!” Then kid brother, being full of grit and resilience, would look up the pest and find out what makes the pest “good.”
Yes, pretty boring.
After about six months of writing that, I wrote a page where the kid brother writes in his journal as a worm, having been hurled that insult by his rude sister (hello, autobiography).
This month’s author interview is with bestselling, award-winning author Doreen Cronin, who’s known for (among other things) her Click, Clack series. How did you know when it was time to stop juggling and take the literary plunge?
DC: I don’t know how many readers are familiar with the “interoffice envelope,” but it is (was?) a large, manila-type envelope with printed lines of “To” and “From” on front and back, to be re-used over and over again. At the top of the envelope was a deep maroon “paper button” and a string that looped around it (to secure the contents, ha!). The mailroom would drop off piles of these and inside were memos, of course, and briefs you worked on that have now been red-inked to within an inch of their original arguments (and not nearly as kindly as your editor’s remarks.
Readers were asking me what Duck was going to do next.
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And did I visit schools? Pizza? I know too many people who sit and wait. If you don’t know these books, please remedy that immediately because they are truly first-rate. (Yes, I quit a long time ago.)
RVC: Why do you think her art works so well with the Click Clack books?
DC: Because she’s brilliant and funny and generous and so is her art.
I didn’t practice law long enough to burn out! When time is scarce, you make the most of it. It’s the most boring of answers ever given to the NYC’s best question, but due to an autoimmune condition, I live a dairy-free, gluten-free life. They both said “absolutely not.” So, of course, I did, because I don’t like being told what to do.
RVC: Let’s talk about Betsy Lewin.