That is the only way I know how to write."
Flinn was destined to be a writer from the age of five, when her mother suggested that she should be an author. "I guess I must have nodded or something," Flinn commented on her Web site, "because from that point on, every poem I ever wrote in school was submitted to Highlights or Cricket magazine. I was collecting rejection slips at age seven." Born in New York state, Flinn grew up in both Syosset, New York, and in Miami, Florida. Reading was an early habit for her, with her list of favorite authors including Astrid Lindgren, Beverly Cleary, Judy Blume, Marilyn Sachs, and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Flinn also noted that she has read Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess fifty times.
Despite her love of reading, when it came to reading her school work, Flinn was always behind, prompting one teacher to comment to her mother that young Alexandra marched to her own drum. By the time she was in high school, Flinn's artistic aspirations had expanded to include performing arts. In college at the University of Miami, she studied opera, singing as a coloratura, "the really loud, high-pitched soprano," as Flinn described her voice on her Web site.
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