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Ann Hood

American Novelist

Born: Dec 9, 1956

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Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach

Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end. Ann Hood

Grief Beginning Plot Smooth End Middle

This was 1978, when flying was still an occasion, a special grand event that took planning and care. I worked as a TWA flight attendant then. I stood in my Ralph Lauren uniform at the boarding door and smiled at the passengers through lips coated with lipstick that perfectly matched the stripe on my jacket. Mostly, the passengers smiled back. Ann Hood

Care Ralph Ralph Lauren Took Back Flying Stripe Lauren Through Attendant Perfectly Smiled Occasion Mostly Matched Passengers Still Jacket Lips Lipstick Stood Door Grand Boarding Uniform Then Worked Planning Flight Special Event

There are so many cruel decisions parents have to make when their child dies. The funeral director requested a sheet for the coffin, and I sent the cozy flannel one, pale blue with happy snowmen, that had just been put away with the winter linens. Ann Hood

Through the eight books in 'The Treasure Chest' series, readers will meet twins Maisie and Felix and learn the secrets and rules of time travel, where they will encounter some of these famous and forgotten people. In Book 1, Clara Barton, then Alexander Hamilton, Pearl Buck, Harry Houdini, and on and on. Ann Hood

Time Travel Book People Will Alexander Meet Books Harry Secrets Rules Some Through Buck Houdini Learn Readers Hamilton Chest Encounter Time Travel Forgotten Eight Famous Where Then Series Twins Pearl Treasure

Babies make you do things for them. They get you up and they get you moving. Ann Hood

You Babies Make Up Get Moving Them Things

When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical figures like Clara Barton, Nancy Hanks, Elias Howe, Patrick Henry, and dozens more came to life for me as children. Ann Hood

I am thrilled to write 'The Treasure Chest,' and to bring to life not only the childhoods of famous people from history, but also the characters of Maisie and Felix, who I hope you will fall in love with just as I have! Ann Hood

When I began my career as a flight attendant, I was a 21-year-old with a B.A. in English and stars in her eyes. I wanted to see every city in the world. I wanted to have adventures that, I hoped, would fuel a writing career some day. Ann Hood

After 9/11, new security measures not only added longer lines and earlier check-ins, but took away our privilege of carrying knitting needles or our favorite moisturizer on board with us. Although we want to be safe when we fly, in some ways it all just adds to the misery of our experience. Ann Hood

Experience Fly Added Took Our Adds Ways Favorite Security Carrying Security Measures Some Only Misery Knitting Longer New Safe Although Lines Privilege Just Want After Board Us Measures Away Earlier Needles

Everyone has read about or knows someone who has gone through fertility treatments. It is an emotional nightmare, fueled by false hope and the promise of a treatment that will work. Ann Hood

Work Hope Will Gone Everyone Promise About Someone Through Emotional Read Knows False Fertility Fueled Who Treatment Treatments Nightmare

My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O.K. too. None of us wanted Ringo. Or even worse, George. Ann Hood

Too Worse Married Ringo John Beatle None Wives Cousins George Wanted Paul Us Used Even Even Worse Play

God does give us more than we can bear sometimes. Ann Hood

God Sometimes Give More Bear Does Than Us

I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell. Ann Hood

I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, but when it's time to do a book tour, I love that extroverted part, too - talking to people, reading, traveling, going out into the world. Ann Hood

Love Time Book People Writing Personality World Reading Too Book Tour Extroverted Out More More Than Anything Split Tour Part Study Feel Talking Than Going Often Anything Traveling

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer - I just was one. Ann Hood

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