The other day I was sitting in my friend Julie's kitchen, watching her four-year-old through the window. Lauren was playing on the sid...

"All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction." —PD James Alex Haley taught me about fact...

Art by Carl Larsson I've always been a writer, but it took me a long time to call myself a writer. Writers seemed to be in an exclusive...

This is what I wanted to be: Matriarch of a big, happy family, colorful, kerchiefed, round and rosy-cheeked— who could represent me better? ...