Most of her childhood was spent in small-town southern Connecticut. "I actually remember very little of my childhood," Voigt once stated. "I am not certain what to make of that," she also commented. "We were not neglected children." It was in this atmosphere that Voigt began to develop an interest in books. She recalled: "My grandmother lived in northern Connecticut, in a house three stories high; its corridors lined with bookcases." Voigt noted that she had already become an avid reader, with books such as "
Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames, The Black Stallion, and the Terhune book[s]," when one day at her grandmother's house she "pulled
The Secret Garden off one of her shelves and read it. This was the first book I found entirely for myself, and I cherished it. There weren't any so-called 'young adult' books when I was growing up. If you were a good reader, once you hit fourth grade, things got a little thin. I started to read adult books, with my mother making sure what I had chosen was not 'too adult.' I read Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Camus, and many classics, except for
Moby Dick, which I finally read in college.
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