Jennifer Chiaverini
Jennifer Chiaverini
Jennifer Chiaveriniis an American quilter and author. She is best known for writing the Elm Creek Quilts novels...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
CountryUnited States of America
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'What I would give,' I thought, 'to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on topics significant and ordinary, to observe the Lincoln White House from such an intimate perspective.'
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Beginning writers are often advised to 'write what you know,' and since I knew about quilters - their quirks, their inside jokes, their disputes and their generosity, their quarrels and their kindnesses - the lives of quilters became a natural subject for me. Quilting wove together my two themes as completely and effortlessly as I could have hoped.