Dream Jobs: Novelist

Dream Jobs: Novelist

By Chance Seales

and Megan Smith

By Chance Seales

and Megan Smith
November 1, 2018

November 1, 2018

Got an unfinished novel in a desk drawer?

SHOW TRANSCRIPT

Herta Feely started writing fiction in grade school after leaving the former Soviet Union, but she didn't begin seriously tackling novel-writing until her 60s. Now people are saying her debut novel is one "every parent should read."

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