The immediacy of her writing is in part due to the fact that she draws heavily upon her personal experience when shaping plot and characters. "Looking back," Adler wrote in an essay for
Something about the Author Autobiography Series (
SAAS), "it almost seems as if everything bad and good in my life served to mold me into the writer I became."
A City Childhood
Born in 1932 in Rockaway Beach, Long Island, Adler was brought up in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. "We moved every couple of years because I had a restless father who was never happy with his boss," Adler once noted. Her father was a car mechanic and a chief petty officer in the Naval Reserve and her mother a bookkeeper and office manager. Much of Adler's early care fell to her maternal grandmother, "a soft, clinging woman" according to Adler, who had lost her own husband when she was still young and who doted on her young granddaughter, overprotecting Adler in the process. Suffering from asthma and a heart murmur, Adler was not allowed to take part in many youthful games, and early on found comfort in reading and roaming about the city.
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