Bøger af Dorothy Thompson White

Dorothy Thompson White has become an author at age eighty-two and said the reason she waited so long is because of the two wonderful husbands she married. The first one she dated for three years and married him after her high school graduation from Marion Co High in Guin, Alabama. He died twenty years later because of the many injuries he received from playing football throughout high school. This left White widowed at age thirty-nine. Three of her children married young. Then there was just one son who was only five. Six years later, Dorothy and her young son moved to Florence, Alabama, where she worked at a hospital as a diet clerk. Her son was then eleven, and Dorothy knew he would soon be gone and she would be all alone. So at age forty-five she placed an ad in a tabloid magazine and found the forty-eight-year-old love of her life. White believes this twenty chapter book is a must-read because he was the perfect husband to her and the perfect step-dad to her children. She went to Kentucky to live in his house there and learned that his great sense of humor made people laugh out loud.About the AuthorAuthor Dorothy Thompson White was born to write. Her high school English teacher gave her the perfect grade of one hundred on every theme she wrote and told her she needed to seek a career as a writer. However, she was engaged to marry her first husband and promised him she would after graduating from Marion Co High School in Guin, Alabama. White was also just as talented with a Broadway style singing voice. Many people begged her to go to New York City and become famous. Her new husband told her he would go to New York with her if she desired to, however, she said no, they would just stay there because he already had a good job and bought them a brand new house.

Dorothy Thompson White feels her story for teenagers is so interesting because it is unique. Furthermore, she believes no other teenager in the world has had these unusual experiences, because no father was like her own. In this story, White shows that only money can spoil children, as she was never spoiled since she was easy to please and had several other talents that gave her much joy, including being an honor student.About the AuthorBoth the author Dorothy Thompson White and her homeroom English teacher Mrs. Eunice Weeks believed she was born to write. When Mrs. Weeks graded the themes she assigned, White was given a perfect score each time. Her parents taught her a wide vocabulary when she was only six months old, as she was the child they waited nine years for and thus spent much time with her.

Author Dorothy Thompson White is elated to be the author of these short stories for children. Only one of her stories, The Outgoing Octopus, is fiction. The others, Twitty Chose Jenny and The Faithful Church Cat, are true stories. White believes that children especially will enjoy these stories because they prove just how amusing animals truly are, because of their close bond with humans.About the AuthorDorothy Thompson White was born on October 7, 1935, in the small town of Guin, Alabama. White enjoyed an entire school life of both singing and writing. White's high school English and home-room teacher discovered her writing talent and said her writing was as good as her singing. She gave Dorothy perfect 100s on all her themes she wrote. Many people told her she should go to New York City and become a Broadway star, however her young love for her steady boyfriend for three school years caused her to marry him after graduation in 1954 and move to Birmingham, Alabama, where he lived and worked. He died in 1975 leaving White a young widow at thirty-nine years old. In 1981, White married a man from Kentucky who died in 2003. She then moved back to her hometown of Guin, Alabama. In 2014 she married one more man who died in 2016. That's when White said, "I don't want to marry again no matter how good they are. I am now eighty-one years old and I am going to become an author as soon as possible." White had written a fiction story in 1996 while living in Kentucky titled, The Outgoing Octopus. Twitty Chose Jenny and The Faithful Church Cat were written in 2016.