![]() When writing Goin' Someplace Special (2000), Patricia remembered her favorite place to go as a child, which was the Nashville Public Library, where she always felt welcome and where she learned her love for reading. ![]() Patricia and her siblings grew up in the south and they all remember the poetry her mother told by Paul Laurence Dunbar. The characters in these stories were always smart and brave, characteristics present in Patricia's later works. Her father's stories usually included the names of her and siblings Nolan and Sarah. ![]() She was inspired to be a writer by her mother who always read her poetry and also by her grandparents who told her many stories. Patricia L'Ann Carwell was born to civil servant parents Robert and Erma Carwell on August 9, 1944, in Smyrna, Tennessee. ![]()
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