Pamela Smith Hill

Over twenty years, I wrote about everything from Mount Rushmore to Water Piks, Navajo rugs to basketball shoes. Along the way, I lived in Kansas, Colorado, and Oregon.

Then in 1994, I left the corporate world behind and started writing books for young adults. Ghost Horses was published two years later.

I continue to write Young Adult fiction, but have just published my first book for adult readers, Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer's Life. I live in Portland, Oregon, with a pair of devoted and lively flat-coated retrievers. My husband Richard died of prostate cancer in 2005; our daughter is a mathematician who lives and works in Portland.

So like Jo March, I’ve become an “American authoress.” But the journey has been longer, harder, and more fulfilling than I ever imagined all those years ago when I first read Little Women.