Anderson grew up on the "wrong side of the tracks" in Mount Vernon, New York, the youngest child of an alcoholic, abusive father. He escaped his situation by quitting high school at sixteen to join the Marines. Four years later, while on leave to attend his father's funeral, he stuns his mother with a question that has inexplicably haunted him since he was a small boy: Was the man who had so tormented him in his childhood his real father? His mother swears him to secrecy, and he honors their pact for nearly thirty-five years. Their secret, in ways large and small, defines the course of his life.

Meant To Be: A Memoir

Walter Anderson

Parenting & Relationships

Thorndike Press

The letters of the alphabet are featured in linoleum block prints by the Mississippi artist, Walter Anderson.

An Alphabet

Arts & Photography

Architecture

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI

<p>Here in a volume of astonishing beauty is a menagerie of animals created by the acclaimed artist Walter Anderson. This colorful collection of art assembled from the hundreds of works he produced conveys his lifelong fascination with animals as inspiration for his artistic vision. For Anderson, that vision encompassed the realm of music, which he perceived in the animal world and translated into images in watercolor, oil, ink, pencil, clay, and wood. Anderson’s animals resound with a timeless musical power. Mary Anderson Pickard writes in the introduction: “A rhythm of frogs encircles a cereal bowl. Across a sheet of typing paper flows a cat’s melodic line. Horses resonate in wood or clay. In watercolor, curling green lizards harmonize with angled intervals of grass.”</p>

A Symphony of Animals

Mary Anderson Pickard

Individual Artists

<p>WE (Walter and Elizabeth) is a collection of letters from Walter starting in 2003 from a man in prison written to a mail order art book company asking for damaged art books. First they're an innocent request by a very imaginative person asking for free art books. A short note was sent back telling him we could not do that and signed my name. I was that customer service person who answered his letter. Walter then wrote to my name thanking me for answering his request because no other mail order company had answered before. That started into a pen-friend relationship. Then into true friendship and now into a true love story that continues to this day. The main ingredients are humour, imagination and a look at one's humanity in a nearly impossible situation imposed by the current Texas, criminal justice system. It is a true, true story. Walter is my "idiot savant". His unique way of explaining his life behind bars along with his constant fight with the Texas court system to prove his actual innocence. The writing of WE is a true labour of love and love and God blessed. I love writing this because of who Walter has become in my life and me into his. Neither one of us are younger than 50+ so this will be our last hurrah and we're making each day count by loving each other. Elizabeth (Liz) was born in Kintbury, Berkshire, England. Her family immigrated to America with an American family with plans to start a fish and ship franchise, which unfortunately didn't happen which was a shame because it would have been great. Liz and Walter currently live in Grass Valley California where her grandchildren live. Liz loves volunteering at Sammie's Friends Thrift store 4 days a week and gardening.</p>

WE Part 2: Walter and Elizabeth

Elizabth McGuire

Xulon Press

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