In the introduction to her book
What's Your Story": A Young Person's Guide to Writing Fiction, she states: "We are born hungry. We are hungry for food, for warmth, for a loving touch, and for something else as well. We are hungry to understand, to make sense of the world around us. Almost as soon as we begin to talk, we ask a single question, over and over again. 'Why"' And we are still asking that same question when we say, only slightly later, 'Tell me a story.'"
Balance between Child and Adult
Marian Dane Bauer was born in 1938 in the small north-central Illinois town of Oglesby. Her father, Chester Dane, was a chemist who, because of job scarcity during the Great Depression, worked for many years in a cement plant; only later in life did he find a job in his chosen field, working for an area chemical company until his retirement. Her mother, Elsie Hempstead Dane, was a schoolteacher. Bauer recalls that the housing on the edge of the small mill town where she and her older brother Willis spent their childhood was fairly isolated and that she had few friends her own age to play with.
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