Featured Interview With Hope Andersen
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born in Sharon, Connecticut during the Flood of ’55. Raised in New England throughout my childhood, I now live in North Carolina with my husband of 29 years, our three grown children, two dogs, a cat and a fish.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I fell in love with Shakespeare in the third grade. I wrote my first short story the following year.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I love many different authors for many different reasons. If I am in the mood for poetry, I’ll pick up Mary Oliver or Robert Frost. Non-fiction? The Book of Joy with the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu. Women’s fiction? Marian Keyes, Sophie Kinsells, Jane Austen! I enjoy Robert Parker’s mysteries and Anne Lamott’s essays. The Book Sisters
Tell us a little about your latest book?
I began writing The Book Sisters in 2016. It was the second novel I wrote after my husband’s near-death experience with liver cancer. I actually came up with the idea for the book when I was in my 20s, but I was advised to wait. Forty years later, the book erupted. It wrote itself in about four months. While it is a story of six sisters, and I am one of six girls, the book is less about my family and more about prototypes. Though, honestly, the narrator Vera is pretty much me.
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