In this interview with Don Swaim, Gerret Weyr discusses growing up with a feminist mother who pushed her to succeed as a woman. She went on to college in North Carolina but had to drop out her junior year after having a stroke. Back at home in New York she decided to take a writing class in which she wrote many short stories and eventually her novel Pretty Girls.

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For many years most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. Wired for Books is proud to webcast these interviews in RealAudio.