Newbery Medalist Phyllis Reynolds Naylor"s one hundred and more books are true to life, funny, and, most of all, well written -- you"d think that she doesn"t have to work at writing at all. But that"s not true. How I Came to Be a Writer is the story of one author"s beginnings -- successes and failures, reviews and rejection slips -- things that mark the stages of a writer"s life. Illustrated with photographs, and including samples of her earlier writing, this book will show you the inner workings of the writing process, from the spark of an idea to a book"s actual publication. This classic writer"s memoir has been revised and updated to include material on the writing of the Newbery-winning Shiloh and its two sequels.