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Name: How I came to be a writer
Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

📘 How I came to be a writer by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Details the career of one writer from stories composed in grade school through first published pieces to novels written to date.

First publish date: 1978

Authors: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

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