5/28/2023 0 Comments Hands of my father myron uhlbergA young boy shares the excitement of Robinson's rookie season with his deaf father.Įach day he listens eagerly to the Brooklyn Dodgers games on the radio. Jackie Robinson is the new first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers-and the first black player in Major League Baseball. IT IS THE SUMMER OF 1947 and a highly charged baseball season is underway in New York. As for advice: write as you would speak, freely, then revise, as you would want to be read, closely. Writing what you know is good advice, but you also must understand what you know in order to write well. Many writing experts advise, “write what you know.” Do you agree with this? And what practical advice would you give an aspiring author? The idea of writing a book that would be both a biography of my two deaf parents, and a memoir, was my first inspiration, but until I thought of the title, Hands of My Father, I didn’t know how to begin. Which came first: the idea for the book, the title, or a passage from the book? While drinking anisette with Ernest Hemingway: “Papa, why did you do it?” Who is it, and what would you ask that author if you only got to ask him one question? You are having a drink with one of your favorite authors.
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