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Ainslie Manson

3.8/5 ( ratings)
Born
October 30 2022
I grew up in Hudson Heights . I had a happy outdoorsy kind of childhood. I rode horses at a farm across the road. I rode my bike to school, and to the store and to the library. We didn't have a family car until I was ten.

I loved books as a child but because of the war, I had few of my own. I had really poor eyesight and when I was in about Grade Four, an eccentric eye doctor informed my mother that I should be reading nothing but essential school work. Probably because of that skimpy beginning, I now read voraciously. In my school days, I spent a great deal of time staring out the window, deep in daydreams. I was extremely shy and hated it when the teachers asked me questions. I was happiest when we had a subject called Composition. I loved making up stories. I also kept a diary. Writing in my diary was like sharing secrets with a best friend.

After high school I could have gone right on to university, but in those days it meant taking more math. I couldn't face that! So instead, I worked and then traveled. I didn't cover the whole world, but I saw a good deal of it. And I wrote about my experiences every night.

Back in Montreal, I met my husband. He was a Vancouverite and had come to Montreal to do his medical internship. During his training we lived in the States for several years and it was while we were there that I finally realized I wanted to make some sort of writing into a full time career. Full time university was out because I had a day job, so I took a three year creative writing course that I could work on in the evenings. We eventually settled in Vancouver where I wrote for magazines, and then for newspapers. It wasn't until my life was totally chaotic with three active sons and hardly any free time that I found my true genre: writing for kids.

The boys are grown up now, but there is still a lot of coming and going at our house. Fortunately I have my own study and I always want to stay when I step in the door. Two dogs usually lie sleeping by my fireplace. On my favorite kind of day, I get up early, walk the dogs along the sea, then come home and write. I can see the sea from my study, so I STILL stare out the window and daydream!

Ainslie Manson

3.8/5 ( ratings)
Born
October 30 2022
I grew up in Hudson Heights . I had a happy outdoorsy kind of childhood. I rode horses at a farm across the road. I rode my bike to school, and to the store and to the library. We didn't have a family car until I was ten.

I loved books as a child but because of the war, I had few of my own. I had really poor eyesight and when I was in about Grade Four, an eccentric eye doctor informed my mother that I should be reading nothing but essential school work. Probably because of that skimpy beginning, I now read voraciously. In my school days, I spent a great deal of time staring out the window, deep in daydreams. I was extremely shy and hated it when the teachers asked me questions. I was happiest when we had a subject called Composition. I loved making up stories. I also kept a diary. Writing in my diary was like sharing secrets with a best friend.

After high school I could have gone right on to university, but in those days it meant taking more math. I couldn't face that! So instead, I worked and then traveled. I didn't cover the whole world, but I saw a good deal of it. And I wrote about my experiences every night.

Back in Montreal, I met my husband. He was a Vancouverite and had come to Montreal to do his medical internship. During his training we lived in the States for several years and it was while we were there that I finally realized I wanted to make some sort of writing into a full time career. Full time university was out because I had a day job, so I took a three year creative writing course that I could work on in the evenings. We eventually settled in Vancouver where I wrote for magazines, and then for newspapers. It wasn't until my life was totally chaotic with three active sons and hardly any free time that I found my true genre: writing for kids.

The boys are grown up now, but there is still a lot of coming and going at our house. Fortunately I have my own study and I always want to stay when I step in the door. Two dogs usually lie sleeping by my fireplace. On my favorite kind of day, I get up early, walk the dogs along the sea, then come home and write. I can see the sea from my study, so I STILL stare out the window and daydream!

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