“Before my first book came out, I worked as a newspaper copy editor in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and a newspaper reporter in Indianapolis, and then detoured into freelance writing and teaching writing at a community college. But I had summer jobs at newspapers three years in a row, so it seemed logical to follow that route after graduation.
I ended up majoring in both creative writing and journalism in college (as well as history, just for fun) and kind of spent the whole four years wavering between the different types of writing. “I was also a big bookworm from an early age, and dreamed of becoming a writer, though I didn’t see it as a very practical or realistic goal. But, who knows? Maybe they would have thought I was strange anyway. “I think a lot of people I met my freshman year in college thought I was very strange, because they were all from suburbia, and I felt like I was coming from a completely different world. As a kid, I completely took it for granted that my brothers and sister and I had our own pony that, if we went outside to play, we had hundreds of acres to roam around on that, if something bad happened-the hogs got out, the fields flooded-my parents expected the whole family to pull together to deal with the problem. Margaret Peterson Haddix on Margaret Peterson Haddix: “I grew up on a farm near Washington Court House, Ohio.
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