Synopsis
Twenty-nine writers, including Dickens, Kipling, Mencken, Welty, and Dillard, recount their first memories of reading.
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About the Author
Steven Gilbar lives in Santa Barbara and does not get to spend as much time in the wilderness as he would like. His previous anthologies include "Tales of Santa Barbara" (1994) and "Red Tiles, Blue Skies" (1996).
Review
The Open Door is a reader's delight, a book to be savored, to browse through time and again. It has an endearingly personal tone, as if the reader had been invited to sit down for a short visit with each of the writers. --Heather Vogel Frederick, Christian Science Monitor
Recommended highly for life-long bookworms and readers. --ABA Booklist
Amusing, charming, powerful at times, the book is a small treasure. --The Cleveland Plain Dealer
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