Lazy Beds (The Snowy Series #8)

About the Author When Ruth Doan MacDougall was born in Laconia, New Hampshire, her parents brought her home from the hospital to a chicken farm in neighboring Belmont. Her father, Daniel Doan, had taken up chicken farming after Dartmouth, the idea being that he could both raise chickens and write. As he later joked: I even thought the plan was sound! The income wasn t enough to support a family, and when Ruth was three the Doans moved to Laconia, where Dan got a job at a manufacturing company.Dan had to give up farming, but he didn t give up writing. Ruth remembers falling asleep each evening listening to what she later would call a literary lullaby, the sound of his typewriter as he wrote at night. By the time she was six, she had written her first story and knew that she too was a writer.After graduating from Laconia High School, Ruth attended Bennington College from 1957 to 1959. She then transferred to Keene State College to join her husband, Don MacDougall. They graduated together in 1961. Ruth s novels include: The Snowy Series: The Cheerleader Snowy Henrietta Snow The Husband Bench, or Bev s Book A Born Maniac, or Puddles s Progress A Gunthwaite Girl (a novelette) Site Fidelity Lazy Beds First published in 1973, The Cheerleader became a national best seller. It was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, optioned by Twentieth Century Fox, and made into an NBC sitcom pilot. Since then it has been called a classic and a favorite book. Readers wanted to know What happened next? and thus the sequels of Ruth Doan MacDougall's Snowy Series have taken the characters from the 1950s into the twenty-first century. The Cheerleader was featured in the Coming of Age article in the January February 2011 issue of Bookmarks magazine. It was one of five 1950s-era novels chosen; the others were The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, The Risk Pool by Richard Russo, and A Boy s Own Story by Edmund White. Ruth s other novels are: The Lilting House The Cost of Living One Minus One Wife and Mother Aunt Pleasantine