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realized i never could have imagined myself in this place at this time talking to people about a life that i had been privileged to live. everything that's happened to me i consider a gift, so when you hear, which i will tell you in just a minute, how i started, where i started from, and then realize where i am today, you too will say never in my wildest dreams, but i basically am a southern girl. i wasn't part of the great migration. we got there a couple minutes before that started. i was born in monroe, louisiana, the northern part of louisiana. it doesn't even have the romance of...

whatever. you find yourself 18 years old then. i grew up in a small new hampshire town and always wanted to get out of the town. i wanted to hit the big city. i was always writing. at 18i think i understood that there was only one subject about which i was fully equipped to right, and that was my own life. so i began writing young as my ticket out of new hampshire. what proved to be my one and only a year of college. i sent a letter to the editor in chief of the new york times saying how would like to write for you. interestingly he wrote back and said okay. he also understood that t...

i am absolutely thrilled to have these three authors here with us. as a child of the 60's about 40 years ago i remember the political action of mark rudd at columbia, and i remember reading joyce maynard and 18 year old looks back on life on the front page of the new york times in 1972. and martha tod dudman has been my friend for more than 20 years. so i would like to a just briefly introduced the panelist, and then we will get started. joyce maynard, immediately to my left grew up into new hampshire and now lives in marin county. her book that came out of that new york times magazi...