"Kwame Alexander once hated to read. Required by his father to read encyclopedias and pore over history books, he shunned books and turned to sports. But a discovery about his father's past gave Alexander a new appreciation for his family's love of history and storytelling. He committed himself to poetry and went on to become a Newbury Medal-winning author"--Back cover.
The journal of a young writer beginning her career in New York City in the 1920's, climaxed by her marriage to a young engineer and the beginning of a new life in England in 1929.