"From earliest memory I had been yearning toward the country, toward animals, specifically toward horses and dogs. . . . All of my clearest childhood memories center around animals," explained Hall in an essay for Something about the Author Autobiography Series (SAAS). In her search for a life surrounded by animals, Hall once thought of offering herself to a farm family for adoption, and at age seven she ran away from home hoping to join a pony-ride concession. Throughout her early years Hall tended to keep to herself. "My nature was to be a loner," she once commented, "and I did manage to have a lot of time to myself. I wrote plays, went to the little local library, read continually, primarily horse and dog stories--wish fulfillment books. They became the center of my life. I wasn't trying to expand my mind, but merely to get a horse or a dog any way I could."
During her childhood Hall never considered becoming a published author. "I thought about drawing the pictures [in books], about being an illustrator," she said. "But my conception of someone who wrote books was beyond anything I ever imagined I could be.
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