![]() “Everyone had to be in the camp play,” McGovern wrote. When they returned two years later, McGovern wrote that her mother “never smiled and hardly talked to us. I read books all the time to escape the loneliness I felt.” In school, McGovern said, “teachers never called on me because they saw how hard it was for me to speak.” Her stuttering proved difficult at summer camp as well. One of the reasons she loved to write, McGovern noted, was that it helped her deal with her stuttering.īorn in New York in 1930, McGovern had a tough childhood, exasperated by what The New York Times referred to as a “profound stutter.” Her father died when she was a young child, after which McGovern and her older sister were sent to live with their grandparents. ![]() Known for writing the beloved children’s book Stone Soup, Ann McGovern was a prolific author who wrote more than 50 books that have collectively sold millions of copies all over the world. ![]()
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