Judith Stoleson
I grew up a city girl in Chicago. My father died when I was four so my mother had to go to work as a secretary. That meant I spent a lot of time by myself. To keep me out of trouble when I was eight, I was allowed to go to the movies three times a week. (This was before TV.) Sometimes, I didn't have a dime for a ticket, so the manager would let me pick up candy wrappers and other scraps outside of the theater for admission. Watching those amazing stories on the big screen sparked my imagination--Cary Grant chasing a tiger in "Bringing up Baby," Judy Garland singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," Peter Fonda driving a rattle-trap truck to California to scrape out a living during the Depression. I didn't do any writing then but acted out the characters I'd seen. Those movies and the emotions they stirred stayed with me and helped me create my own stories when I grew older.
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