Zilpha kea autobiography sample

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Zilpha Keatley Snyder contributed the following autobiographical essay to SATA:

When I look back to the beginning, at least as far back as memory will take me, I see most vividly animals and games and books.

People are there, too, my mother and father and older sister, but in those earliest memories they are much less distinct. I don't know what this says about my priorities at the time, but there it is.

There were lots of animals.

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Although my father worked for Shell Oil, he had grown up on cattle ranches, and by dream and desire he was always a rancher. So we lived in the country where he had room for a garden and as many animals as possible. Among my earliest acquaintances were cows, goats, ducks, chickens, rabbits, dogs, cats, and, a little later on, horses.

I can recall in some detail the day we acquired a collie puppy and a young kitten. I was three years old. The kitten was nominally mine and from the mysterio