Suzy mckee charnas biography

Suzy McKee Charnas

In an interview here, Suzy McKee Charnas discusses Dorothea Dreams and fiction writing.

Suzy McKee Charnas grew up on the West Side of Manhattan when that area was still packed with refugees from World War Two, settling among many previous waves of newcomers from elsewhere. The environment was rich, varied, and fraught enough to be a little scary as well as stimulating.

Her own parents were both artists, her toys were paper and colored pencils, and everyone assumed that she too would become an artist and a proper New York bohemian. She made an early start by appropriating some of her illustrator-father's dummy booklets to write and illustrate her own stories, most of them about cowboys and horses. She was a huge fan of Will James' and Walter Farley's books, and still harbors warm feelings for whoever wrote Pat Rides the Trail.

She was accepted by a public High School dedicated to art and music students (now part of the La Guardia High School locate

•