Frances+O'Roark+Dowell




 * ChildHood**

Frances was born May 30, 1964, in Berlin, Germany. Her dad was in the U.S. Army at the time, and she was born on a military post, so she always been an American citizen. O'Roark started writing poetry when she was in the first and second grade. Frances has two brothers, and three very fabulous sisters-in-law. She also has one brother-in-law.


 * Family and personal life**

Frances is married to Clifton Dowell and have two sons, Jack and Will. Her mom and dad are, Jane and Del O'Roark. Her mom and dad-in-laws, are Jack and Melvene Dowell. Frances brothers are De the oldest and Doug the youngest, her sister-in-laws are Danni, Kim and Jessica, her brother-in-law is Eric. She has four nieces Hannah, Kirsten, Elizabheth and Gabrielle, and she has a nephew Devin.


 * Books and Other Titles**

O'Roarks favorite things are books: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and To Kill a Mockingbird are the big favorites of hers. Other books she includes are Lonesome Dove by Annie Dillard, Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons. Her favorite poets and writers are Wendell Berry, Katherine Paterson, and Jerry Spinelli. Books she read as a kid are Harriot the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh. Books she reads as an adult are Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor.


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 * Summary**

She became a writer because she wanted to be like her friend intoduced her to a publisher and so Frances gave her a few chapters of one of her stories she was writing. Frances never new she was going to be a writer she just wrote stories. She gets her ideas from a lot of things, but she mostly just thinks of things to write. Some advice she would give young writers is read, read, read, and write, write, write. Where and when does she write she writes on her lone times and mostly writes on her laptop at night when she is about to go to bed.