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Melissa Wiley

Melissa Wiley is the author of Inch and Roly Make a Wish and other books for children, including The Prairie Thief and two series of novels about the ancestors of Laura Ingalls Wilder. She lives in San Diego with her comic-book-writing husband, a half... Read full bio

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Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire. -- W. B. Yeats
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Melissa Wiley Revealed
Revealing Questions
Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words?
A. Small house, six kids, three thousand books: bliss.
Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire. -- W. B. Yeats
Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing?
A. Gardening
On Books and Writing
Q. Who are your favorite authors?
A. L.M. Montgomery, Maud Hart Lovelace, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Elizabeth Goudge, A.S. Byatt, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Fred Chappell, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Madeleine L'Engle, Katharine S. White, Monica Furlong, and I could keep this up all day.