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CHAPTER II AUTHOR AND SYNOPSIS OF THE STORY
2.1 Fern Michaels’ and her work
According to http:www.fernmichaels.combiography, Fern Michaels grew up in Hastings, Pennsylvania, She was called Ruth. She is marriage. In that
her day, family and friends call her Dink, a name her father gave her when she was born because according to him she was ‘a dinky little thing’ weighing in at
four and a half pounds. However, she begins called Fern since people are more comfortable with a name they can pronounce.
She grew up, got a job, got married, and had five kids. When her youngest went off to Kindergarten, her husband told her to get off her useless
activities and get a job. At first time she did not know how to do anything except being a wife and mother. She was also a voracious reader having cut her teeth on
The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Cherry Ames and the like. The library was a magical place for her. It still is to this day. Rather than facing
the outside world with no skills, she decided to write a book then she wrote 99 books, most of them New York Times Best Sellers.
Most writers’ love what they do and she is no exception. She loves it when she gets a germ of an idea and gets it down on paper. She loves breathing
life into her characters. She love writing about women who persevere and prevail because that is what she has to do to get to this point in time. It is another way of
saying it does not matter where we have been, what matters is where we are going
and how we get there. The day she finally prevailed was the day she was inducted into the New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame. For her it was an awesome day and
there are no words to describe it. She has been telling stories and scribbling for 37 years. She hopes she can continue for another 37 years. It was not easy during
some of those years. As she said, she had to persevere then finally she getting her successes.
2.2 Fern Michaels’ Selected Work
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