Gary Jennings
Gary Jennings
Gary Jenningswas an American author who wrote children's and adult novels. In 1980, after the successful novel Aztec, he specialized in writing adult historical fiction novels...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth20 September 1928
CountryUnited States of America
adding alone century totally unless
In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.
call good people
I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
interpret
I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.
deter manuscript odd pages park slept starved took wrapped
I starved and slept on park benches. I wrapped myself in the pages of my manuscript to keep warm. For two and a half years I took odd jobs; nothing was going to deter me.
bangkok exist flesh pots
When I was in Thailand, I went into the up-country because Marco Polo didn't get down into the flesh pots of Bangkok because they didn't exist in those days.