I grew up in that little world of books.”
“The library was my amusement park, my mall-it’s where we went for fun. It had swings, we’d bring a lunch, and take the allotted 10 books home in shopping bags,” she says. “My best friend Gladys and I-she was eight, I was six-would walk to our town library and spend the day. Vincent Millay.”Īlthough the author wasn’t wearing dramatic attire when she spoke with BookPage from her home near Philadelphia (where she lives with her husband, author Jerry Spinelli), she did share tidbits from her bibliophilic childhood.
“As I grew older, I wanted to be a poet and wear big hats and long dresses like Edna St. “I fell in love with books and words as a child,” she says. And, since the age of six, she’s been committed to the idea of working with words for a living. She has belonged to the same Wednesday-morning book group for 20 years. Eileen Spinelli is not afraid of commitment.
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