Everyone knows that I love to read. One of my all time favorite
authors, and one from Nebraska is Bess Streeter Aldrich. She was born
in Iowa, but moved to Nebraska as a new wife. After her husbands early
death, and needed a way to support her family she turned to writing.
She mainly wrote fiction, and some of that fiction was based on her own
parents and grandparents experiences. They often had a tinge of
romance, but there was also death and how people dealt with it.
I
do own all her books, most of them are paperback reprints from the
University of Nebraska Press. However, this year for my birthday, a
friend gave me a first edition with a dust jacket of
A Lantern in Her Hand. Which was also the One Book One Nebraska a couple years ago. I was so excited to have gotten it!
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