margaret george the autobiography of henry viii

Today she is active in environmental and animal conservation groups.Ĭombining her interests led her to a position as a science writer at the National Cancer Institute (National Institutes of Health) in Bethesda, Maryland for four years. Following that she received an MA in ecology from Stanford University-one of the earliest departments to offer such a concentration.

She had a great affinity for animals and nature and that led her to a double major at Tufts University in English literature and biology. It was also in Israel that Margaret started keeping land tortoises as pets, an interest which she still follows today. Neither of these horse sagas got published, but the ten-year-old author received an encouraging note from an editor at Grosset & Dunlap, telling her she had a budding talent but should work on her spelling. Now she has added another dimension to that travel by specializing in visiting times remote from herself. (Now that she lives in the American Midwest she writes about the Middle East!) Clearly writing in her case followed Emily Dickinson's observation 'There is no frigate like a book' and she used it to go to faraway places. Interestingly, the subject of these was not what lay around her in the Middle East, but the American west, which she had never set foot in. (Margaret has since been to Graceland.)īut it was earlier in Israel that Margaret, an avid reader, began writing novels to amuse herself when she ran out of books to read. Margaret's first piece of published writing, at the age of thirteen, was a letter to TIME Magazine defending Elvis against his detractors. Following that they lived in Tel Aviv (right after the 1948 war, when it was relatively quiet), Bonn and Berlin (during the spy-and-Cold-War days) before returning-at the height of Elvis-mania-to Washington DC, where Margaret went to high school. The family traveled on a freighter named after Ulysses' son Telemachus that took thirty days to reach Taiwan, where they spent two years. diplomatic service and was posted to a consulate in Taiwan. Margaret George is a rolling stone who has lived in many places, beginning her traveling at the age of four when her father joined the U.S.

Margaret george the autobiography of henry viii