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Rebecca Stead: 'In real life, there are always more than two doors'

Written By Unknown on Thursday, August 27, 2015 | 11:33 AM

The children’s author talks about how writing was cathartic to her as a pre-teen and how her new novel Goodbye Stranger is full of ‘murky morals’

Rebecca Stead began writing her award-winning books for children by accident –literally. More than a decade ago, she was working as a public defender in New York City and struggling to find traction with her writing. She loved adult fiction, but it wasn’t coming naturally.

“I felt almost too slow, a little bit paralyzed when it came to trying to write that kind of material,” she said. “I couldn’t shed my self-consciousness.” She was reluctant to share her work, and even more reluctant to revise it.

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