A Voice from the Border | About the Author
Award-winning author Pamela Smith Hill's roots are in Springfield, Missouri, the setting of this young adult novel. Hill was born in 1954 in Springfield, Missouri. Her father is a retired minister and painter and her mother, Carolyn Clark Hill, is a homemaker. Hill says that she grew up on Bible Stories and old television Westerns. Perhaps that is why she enjoys writing about the past. Also she admired the writing of Louisa May Alcott and particularly enjoyed Jo March's character in Alcott's novel Little Women. Hill says that Jo was a tomboy and longed to be a writer like she did....
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