![]() In May of 2006, we were both able to quit our teaching jobs and move into full time writing. It was published in January 2003, and we've published a book in the Noble Dead Saga every year since. ![]() and I sold Dhampir in 2001, which changed our lives considerably. We have a lovely and talented daughter, Jaclyn, who lives in Houston, Texas along with our wonderful and talented son-in-law, Paul. I love the Northwest, and it's a great place to write. Over the years, we've lived in Washington State, Idaho, Colorado, and now moved just south of Portland, Oregon. ![]() Between 19, I taught college English while writing fiction on the side, some independently and some with my husband and life-long partner J.C. Like most writers, I've worked at many jobs in my life, including teaching pre-school until I completed my master's degree in Composition Theory. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Until 1955, he worked as a teacher and interpreter for the military. In 1943, he was drafted into the Soviet Army, training first at the artillery school in Aktyubinsk and later at the Military Institute of Foreign Languages in Moscow, which he graduated from in 1949 as an interpreter of Japanese and English. In January of 1942, Arkady and his dad were evacuated from the Siege of Leningrad, however Arkady was the sole survivor in his train car, since his dad died upon reaching Vologda. Other adaptations of their work include “Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel” (1979), “The Sorcerers” (1982, and based off “Monday Begins on Saturday”), and “The Ugly Swans (2006).“Hard to Be a God” was adapted twice, once in 1989 and again in 2013.Īrkady was born Augin Batumi to a Jewish art critic father and a Russian Orthodox teacher mom, but the family would later move to Leningrad. Andrei Tarkovsky adapted the book for the screen into a movie called “Stalker”, released in 1979. Their best known novel was translated into English as “Roadside Picnic”. ![]() Their early work was influenced by Stanislaw Lem and Ivan Yefremov, but later would develop their own, unique style of science fiction writing. Arkady and Boris Strugatsky were Soviet Russian science fiction writers that collaborated throughout most of their careers. ![]() ![]() ![]() One did, the person I dedicated the book to. I couldn’t bear to be without them.ĭid they become lifelong friends like your characters? I met these wonderful kids who are not the kids in the book but I met my own group of wonderful kids. I loved it so much there and it was the first time I got to take myself seriously. For me, the experience opened my life up to the fact that there’s a big wide world out there. ![]() If the summer camp experience hadn’t led to a lot of other thoughts I would never have written a book about it because it’s not a “summer camp” novel. You attended a summer camp like the characters in the book- is that what inspired this story? Wolitzer discussed the book and some of its themes with me. A look at talent and various means of success, “The Interestings” follows these characters to their late fifties. Jules, the initial outsider, is there on a scholarship but finds herself embraced by a circle of friends that open her world a little wider. Meg Wolitzer’s new novel, “The Interestings,” begins with a group of teenagers in a summer camp. ![]() |