(publisher), Boston, MA, editorial assistant, 1979–81 barn manager on a horse farm, Holliston, MA, 1981–82 Books of Wonder, New York, NY, clerk, 1983 freelance reader, copy, line-editor, and general all-purpose publishing dogsbody, 1983–91.

Ward and Paul (stenographic reporting firm), Washington, DC, editor and transcriber, 1972–73 Research Associates, Brunswick, ME, research assistant, 1976–77 bookstore clerk in Maine, 1978 teacher and counselor at private secondary school in Natick, MA, 1978–79 Little, Brown, Inc.

Agent-Merrilee Heifetz, Writers House, Inc., 21 West 26th St., New York, NY 10010. I grow more cynical all the time, and am now more likely to belong to countryside-saving charities.' Religion: 'Lapsed Protestant.' Hobbies and other interests: Gardening, horses, walking, travel, many kinds of music, and life as an expatriate and the English-American culture chasm.ĪDDRESSES: Home-Hampshire, England. Politics: 'Few affiliations, although I have strong feelings pro-ERA and pro-freedom-anti- big business and anti-big government. Education: Attended Dickinson College, 1970–72 Bowdoin College, B.A. Navy and Merchant Marines) and Jeanne Carolyn (a teacher maiden name, Turrell) McKinley married Peter Dickinson (an author), January 3, 1992. PERSONAL: Born November 16, 1952, in Warren, OH daughter of William (in the U.S.

The door in the hedge by robin mckinley