. . . It has brought me wonderful and enduring friendships and a tremendous enrichment of my understanding of life." She more recently added, "I see my character Julian as an Everychild, a child whose hopes and mishaps children everywhere can understand. Letters from young readers of many races and cultures saying his adventures remind them of themselves support me in viewing Julian this way. As an author I am more interested in what we have in common as human beings than in the things that divide us. I'm interested in how we conquer our hatreds and our fears, our lack of love, and our lack of hope."
Wisconsin Youth
Cameron grew up in rural Wisconsin in the late 1940s and 1950s, spending lots of time alone, riding her pony, fishing, looking for Indian arrowheads, and, as she recalled, dreaming "a lot about what the land was like before the arrival of Europeans.
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