![]() That’s how I became so comfortable around art, and got to know two of my favorite artists - Johannes Vermeer and Alexander Calder. As a teenager, I discovered that you could hang out with friends at museums like the Metropolitan, the Frick or the Guggenheim, which were then just about free for kids, instead of going right home after school. I took two public buses to get to school. My sister and brother and I played ball, rode bikes and roller-skated on the street. My name has always been Blue, although it’s Elizabeth on my birth certificate. I was born and grew up in New York City, in a long, thin apartment near Mt. I’m about the same age here as the kids are in my books. That’s really what I’m doing being a city kid, I wasn’t at the beach all the time. The puzzle was always to allow words to shine singly yet also fit together in combinations that felt just right. I wanted to be a writer by the time I was eight as a kid, I played with words in my head, turning them this way and that as if they had color and sparkle. Many of us have passions that started in childhood – sometimes I think we are who we are right from the beginning. ![]()
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