Elaine Dundy Quote

I'd always prided myself on how unlike my books were from each other in settings and subject matter. But not until late in my career did I realize that a single thread ran through them, that I'd used the same strategy to catch the reader's attention. It is the old Western movie gimmick: A Stranger Comes to Town. I am that Stranger. Together with the reader I will discover what's going on in that town whether it be Paris, London, New York, Sydney, Tupelo, Ferriday — or in a women's federal prison. And eventually we will make sense of it.

"A Stranger Comes to Town" (c. 2001)

I'd always prided myself on how unlike my books were from each other in settings and subject matter. But not until late in my career did I realize...

I'd always prided myself on how unlike my books were from each other in settings and subject matter. But not until late in my career did I realize...

I'd always prided myself on how unlike my books were from each other in settings and subject matter. But not until late in my career did I realize...

I'd always prided myself on how unlike my books were from each other in settings and subject matter. But not until late in my career did I realize...