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Random Gamp
The Man With the Red Umbrella For years I wanted to write about a man with an umbrella. I didn’t know who he was. I didn’t know what he wanted. I just had the umbrella, and I couldn’t get rid of it. The name came later, and it came from Dickens. In Martin Chuzzlewit there’s…
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Henry Strauss
The Man Who Became a Boy Henry Strauss started out as a grown man. I was tearing the walls out of what would become our living room — living in the middle of the work, the way you do, with something always torn open and nothing quite finished. And I started writing about a man…
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Anna Kate
Where Anna Kate Came From She started out as my daughter. I wrote the poem years ago, before I ever stood in front of a classroom, and the girl on the dock was Aleigha. Not by name — the name in the poem was Anna Kate from the start — but every time I read…
Random Gamp Adventures
Children's Picture Books
Random Gamp Adventures 