![]() ![]() I went to Yale University, spent a work-study year back in England, and then spent seven years getting a PhD in Folklore at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. When she died in a car accident in 1978, her wonderful parents took us in and raised us. I loved Jamaica and became fluent in Jamaican patois (I can't really speak it any more, but I can still understand it) but in 1973 my parents separated, and we ended up back in the USA living with my mother in Harrisburg, PA, where her parents were. When I was six he was sent to the University of the West Indies in Jamaica for three years to do the same thing in Kingston. He helped organize the Headstart program there. ![]() My father, who worked for the New York City Board of Education for most of his life, was sent to England to do teacher training at what is now Manchester Metropolitan University. We lived practically in the shadow of Alderley Edge, the setting for several of Alan Garner's books and for my own first book The Winter Prince that landscape, and Garner's books, have been a lifelong influence on me. ![]() I was born in New York City in 1964, and moved to England when I was 3. ![]()
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