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Shiloh study guide T G L L H E LENCOE I T E R AT U R E I B R A RY Study Guide for Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor i CMeet Phyllis Reynolds Naylor The marvelous thing about writing is that I may play the part of so many di ?erent people ??an old grandmot

T G L L H E LENCOE I T E R AT U R E I B R A RY Study Guide for Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor i CMeet Phyllis Reynolds Naylor The marvelous thing about writing is that I may play the part of so many di ?erent people ??an old grandmother on one page a young boy the next a middle-aged man or a girl of ?fteen ??Phyllis Reynolds Naylor P hyllis Reynolds Naylor was born in in Anderson Indiana She was the middle child in her family of two girls and a boy She writes of one of the family ? s favorite activities reading books together Some of the best nights were the ones when my father did the reading He could imitate all kinds of voices ?? the runaway Jim ? s in Huckleberry Finn Injun Joe ? s in Tom Sawyer and Marley ? s ghost in A Christmas Carol In elementary school Naylor was writing her own stories Her love of writing was well known in her school and she was sometimes asked to compose poems for special occasions At home she wrote and illustrated mystery adventure and fantasy stories for herself and her family When Naylor was sixteen a Sunday school teacher who knew how much Phyllis loved to write stories asked her to write for a church newspaper Naylor ? s ?rst story about a young baseball player was published in the newspaper Several weeks later she received a check for ??the ?rst money that she earned as a writer As a teenager Naylor continued writing She published other pieces including a humorous column in the church newspaper During summers the family visited grandparents in Iowa and in Maryland Both locations would later appear as settings in Naylor ? s books In when she was eighteen Phyllis Reynolds married and moved to Chicago Five years later her husband became mentally ill and had to be hospitalized After eight years of treatment he did not recover and the couple divorced The experience of living with a mentally ill person is described in her novel The Keeper She later married Rex Naylor a speech pathologist They have two children and live in Bethesda Maryland outside Washington D C Naylor is known for the great variety of her books She has written for both adults and children Her children ? s books are set in widely di ?erent locations ??West Virginia Florida Iowa and Maryland She has written about a range of subjects including the loss of religious faith A String of Chances the supernatural her series of Witch and York books divorce The Solomon System and the death of a parent The Dark of the Tunnel Not all of Naylor ? s novels focus on serious topics A school contest to conserve natural resources is the setting for Beetles Lightly Toasted In this comic novel Naylor mixes insects imaginative recipes and hungry students Some of her books like Shiloh and its two