Favorite things to do (other than reading): Canning and cheese making, gardening, exploring new places, crossword puzzles, and spending time with family.Book currently reading/most recently read: THE BREWER’S TALE: A HISTORY OF THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BEER.Favorite time of day/place to write: In the morning, after everyone else leaves for the day, with a cat on her lap and a dog at her feet.Childhood aspiration: Doctor-actress-journalist-novelist, which she learned is not technically a thing.FRANKWEILER, CHARLOTTE’S WEB, anything by Edward Eager or Ellen Raskin. Favorite book(s) growing up: HARRIET THE SPY, FROM THE MIXED UP FILES OF MRS.EDITH’S (Simon & Schuster/ Aladdin, Spring 2016), the last boy at an all-girls school that failed in an attempt to go coed tries to get himself kicked out through a series of pranks, but faces unforeseen consequences to himself, his friends, and his family. In Lee’s debut middle grade novel, THE LAST BOY AT ST. with her husband, daughter, and a rotating cast of pets. Her interests include amateur cheesemaking, traveling, associating with animals, shushing people in movie theaters, kickboxing, and blinking very rapidly for no reason. As a journalist she’s written about everything from wedding planning to the banking crisis to how to build your own homemade camera satellite. Lee Gjertsen Malone is a Massachusetts transplant, via Long Island, Brooklyn, and Ithaca, NY.
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