"My parents are Kansans--they were from Kansas, not Arkansas," she explains in an interview with
Authors and Artists for Young Adults (
AAYA), "but they were stationed in Arkansas during World War II. My father was at Camp Robinson in Little Rock, serving as a doctor at the military base there. As soon as he was released from the army in the fall of 1945, he did a little training in the Chicago area. After the war they were wondering where to settle and my mother's family encouraged them to go west. My father was a pathologist, and when a position opened up in Ogden, Utah they decided to go there. We moved to Utah in 1947. I was only two at the time, but being in Utah has greatly influenced me.
"I have an older brother (two years older) and a younger sister (four years younger). The Best of Friends has a brother and sister in it, and Moon Dancer has two sisters in it. I thought a lot about that, because those books are about intense family relationships. My relations with my brother and sister were and continue to be very good, and the tensions that appear in the books are literary license.
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