

People are astonished at the things I remember. “I seem to have grown up with an unusual memory. She produced two volumes of autobiography for young readers, A Girl from Yamhill, on her childhood, and My Own Two Feet, which tells the story of her college and young adult years up to the time of her first book.

She is lauded in literary circles far and wide. In 2003, she was chosen as one of the winners of the National Medal of Arts and met President George W. She was named a Living Legend in 2000 by the Library of Congress.
