![]() And very soon, Meredith would start to say, 'Grandma, tell me a farm story.' So Harry and I would walk her to school, and on the way I told her stories about my life as a little girl. "We spent five months in California, and during that time, my granddaughter Meredith was going to kindergarten a mile from home. "What really prompted me to start writing was that our oldest son, Douglas, rather precipitously moved to Palo Alto." It was 1992, Kalish and her husband had retired, but when Douglas and his wife, Donna, suddenly lost their au pair, the grandparents quickly relocated from Sarasota, Fla. ![]() Her posture is excellent, and she is never not smiling. Kalish is sitting in the living room of her comfortable home in a Cupertino seniors community. "Little Heathens," which was named one of the 10 best books of last year by the New York Times, was completely unplanned, un-dreamed of. It's fantastic."Ī retired college professor of literature and expository writing, Kalish raised two sons and moved across the country several times with Harry, a psychologist and fellow academic. And the e-mails! I feel as if I made several thousand new friends. "It's like a second life for us," she says with a glance at Harry, her husband of 64 years. ![]() Kalish, who is 5 feet tall and speaks with a cascading energy and enthusiasm, says she was taken by surprise by her book's success and her induction into the fraternity of literary celebrities. ![]()
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