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Featured Author: James Herriot
"When I first started to write at the advanced age of fifty, I thought it would stop at one book and nobody would ever discover the identity of the obscure veterinary surgeon who had scribbled his experiences in snatched moments of spare time."
In an interview with Scotsman journalist, William Foster, Herriot described how he got started writing. “It was terribly hard work, and I loved it. I felt vaguely that I ought to write about it and every day for twenty-five years I told my wife of something funny that had happened and said I was keeping it for the book…She usually said, ‘Yes, dear’ to humour me but one day…she said: “Who are you kidding? Vets of fifty don’t write first books.’” Something about those words spurred him forward, and he said, “I stormed out and bought some paper and taught myself to type.”
The enduring and timeless stories James Herriot penned of animals and the people who own and love them provide countless hours of enjoyable reading or listening. Full descriptions of James Herriot's books are publicly available for the month of August.
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