My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book
The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.
Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel
I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11
Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.