![]() ![]() ![]() She read it so many times she nearly memorized it. I decided not only did I want to become a writer, it was this I wanted to write." She chanced upon another book in the high school library, The Natural History of the Vampire. "It was the first heroic fantasy I'd read. When Laurell was 13, she discovered a short story collection titled Pigeons from Hell. From those stories Laurell got this lesson: "Rawhide and bloody bones will get you if you aren't good." Gentry related tales of horror originating in the hills of Arkansas, the state where she grew up. Laurell says that it was her grandmother, Laura Gentry, who was responsible for Laurell's interests in things that go bump in the night. She still believes she would have grown up to be a writer regardless. Her mother's death, her grandmother's role in raising her, and having grown up with no men in the home are "the three things that made me who I am," she says. Laurell's mother died in a car crash in 1969, after which time her grandmother held the household together. Hamilton was born in Heber Springs, Arkansas but grew up in Sims, Indiana, a hamlet with a population of about one hundred souls. ![]()
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