Katherine Towler, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/author/katherinekatherinetowler-com/ Sat, 06 May 2017 08:58:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 The Memoir I Did Not Plan to Write https://booksbywomen.org/the-memoir-i-did-not-plan-to-write-by-katherine-towler/ https://booksbywomen.org/the-memoir-i-did-not-plan-to-write-by-katherine-towler/#respond Sat, 06 May 2017 05:05:38 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=19192 The best memoirs read like novels with their shaped plots and fully developed characters, yet the experience of reading a memoir can have a compelling power that fiction does not always match. The knowledge that the story we are reading is true and the immediacy of the author’s voice bring us into direct relation to […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/the-memoir-i-did-not-plan-to-write-by-katherine-towler/feed/ 0 19192 Novelist Or Poet? https://booksbywomen.org/novelist-or-poet-by-katherine-towler/ https://booksbywomen.org/novelist-or-poet-by-katherine-towler/#comments Wed, 15 Mar 2017 06:49:52 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=18066 When I was thirteen years old, I announced that I was going to be a poet when I grew up. I had already been writing poetry for years – since the age of 10 – and both my fifth grade teacher, Mr. Alexander, and my sixth grade teacher, Mrs. Melchior, had encouraged me. Mrs. Melchior, […]

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