Look and Listen

Biography

Persis Granger has been a New Yorker most of her life. With her husband Richard, she lives in the Adirondack Mountains, where she and her husband engaged in subsistence farming and building log cabins from scratch. She studied at The College of Wooster, and has a BA from UMass at Amherst and MST from SUNY Plattsburgh. She edited and co-authored "Shared Stories from Daughters of Alzheimer's: Writing a Path to Peace." With the help of her husband and two daughters, she created two novels ("Adirondack Gold" and "A Summer of Strangers"), historical fiction set in the real town of Thurman, NY in the 1890s. Each summer she hosts a writer's retreat in the Adirondacks, and in the fall she holds another on St. George Island, FL.

Inspiration

Okay. This has to be told in the first person. My inspiration comes from heroic people. Oh, I'm not talking about people who charge into burning buildings or dive into tidal waves to rescue people, although they are certainly heroic. I'm talking about people who struggle through life just doing their best. I'm thinking of the farmers and millers who settled in the rugged Adirondacks, carving homesteads out of forests. I'm thinking of the families and health care professionals who deal with Alzheimer's. No medals, no plaques, no parades recognize them. But they are heroes. They are the stuff of my books.