![]() ![]() ![]() The writing career didn't emerge until she was 28, a mother of two children, and living in a small place she called the barracks apartment, in Urbana, Illinois. Even then, writing was not on her immediate horizon.įirst, she married and started a family. My father wanted me to be a mathematician." So Byars set out to become mathematician, but when she couldn't grasp calculus in college, she turned to English. I would wear smashing hats, wisecrack with the guys, and have a byline known round the world. If I was going to be a writer at all, I was going to be a foreign correspondent like Claudette Colbert in Arise My Love. You sat in a room all day by yourself and typed. not one single teacher ever said to me, 'Perhaps you should consider becoming a writer,'" Byars recalls. Betsy Byars began her writing career rather late in life. ![]()
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