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He didn’t show any musical inclination as a child, but he did love drawing and reading, especially Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows, and the Just William stories by Richard Crompton. Their reunion was short-lived, however, because Julia brought him back to Aunt Mimi’s, and that’s where he grew up. Since Freddy had been more like a playmate than a parent, John chose him at first, but when Julia walked away, crying, John ran sobbing after her. In 1945, Freddy returned and invited the five-year-old boy on an outing to the seaside, intending take him to New Zealand, but Julia found them, and the parents decided to make their son choose between them. Julia, with an absent husband, decided she might as well live the single life, so she gave John to her sister Mimi to raise. Freddy was away with the Merchant Marine when his son was born and, not really ready for family life, managed to find a ship to be away on for most of the boy’s first five years.

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John’s mother, Julia Stanley, was one of five sisters, all of them fierce in their own way she was the free spirit, and married Freddy Lennon on a whim in 1938. The nurses put him under his mother’s hospital bed to protect him. He was born in Liverpool, England, in 1940, during a German air raid, or so the legend goes. She wrote longhand in spiral notebooks, and produced a novel about every year or so. It spent a total of 61 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, and was made into a miniseries in 1985. Her first book, Evergreen, was published in 1978, by which time she was a grandmother in her 60s. She wrote multigenerational family sagas of Jewish immigrants, and though critics were not always kind - one called her books “easy, consoling works of generous spirit, fat with plot and sentiment, thin in nearly every other way and almost invisible in character development” - readers loved them, and they were all best-sellers.

She graduated from Barnard College in 1939 with a degree in history. She said: “You never know what you’ll want to write until it starts writing itself in your head.”ĩToday is the birthday of Belva Plain (1915), born Belva Offenberg in New York City. She is the author of The Road from Coorain (1989), A Woman’s Education (2001) and other books. She then spent ten years as the president of Smith College, the first woman to hold that position.

Jill was educated at the all-female Abbotsleigh School and the University of Sydney, where she took an honors degree in history. With her two brothers away at boarding school, she checked fences, prodded sheep from one paddock to another. By age seven, Conway already had become one of her father’s main station hands. Her father was a sheep rancher, her mother a nurse, and Conway and her brothers were brought up in almost total isolation on Coorain, their 32,000-acre tract of land. It’s the birthday of Australian writer Jill Ker Conway, born in Hillston, New South Wales, Australia (1934). “ We’ve Had This Conversation Before” by Joseph Mills from This Miraculous Turning.

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