![]() ![]() My mother was a teetotaler and my father was into a variety of recreational chemicals, so their marriage was probably doomed from the start. In the story's illustrations my older sister looks suspiciously like the Great Gazoo from The Flintstones. The first story I ever wrote in pre-school was a thinly veiled autobiography about a family of aliens. Later I found out it really doesn't matter whether something's true, as long as it's a good story. When I was little, my family often accused me of being a storyteller, which is a polite way in Kansas of calling someone a liar. ![]() Not even all the presidents, because Hugoton at the time was only ten blocks by ten blocks. They were gravel and named after presidents. ![]() I grew up on the mean streets of Hugoton, Kansas, where the only traffic light in town went to flashing red at dusk. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Reckless Oath We Made, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things, Last Will, and Lie Lay Lain. She earned a MA in Creative Writing from Kansas State University. ![]() BRYN GREENWOOD is a fourth-generation Kansan, one of seven sisters, and the daughter of a mostly reformed drug dealer. ![]()
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