"During her lifetime, she was a driven reader and for the three of us, Director of Studies," the author remembered in his essay. "I can recall at the age of eleven sitting with her in our library reading
Macbeth or
The Merchant of Venice aloud to each other." Neufeld was encouraged to read anything he could get his hands on, from plays by Henrik Ibsen and George Bernard Shaw to children's books like
Ferdinand the Bull. While still in junior high school, Neufeld began writing stories based on those he'd read in the
Saturday Evening Post. He noted that "fame and fortune seemed only a matter of putting a blond heroine in the path of a dark stranger. I wrote tens of stories then and bravely, or innocently, sent them off to the magazine. Each was returned, always with an identical note of rejection."
Over time, Neufeld began to write less and less (although he often had ideas for stories "floating" around in his head).
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