Friday, September 18, 2009

Ridiculously overqualified

I'm really enjoying The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, with its combination of Darwin and coming-of-age story. I was curious about the author, so I flipped to the back flap. We've discussed the tendency to list entertaining or sometimes cutesy jobs that authors have held before being published, but this is a whole different category:

"Jacqueline Kelly was born in New Zealand and raised in western Canada. She now makes her home with her husband and various cats and dogs in Austin and Fentress, Texas. She is a practicing physician and lawyer. This is her first novel."

And I thought that *I* was busy!

2 comments:

holdenj said...

There's just nothing else to say, is there? Maybe it's a really small town, and everyone doubles up on careers...

crossons said...

wow. some people just seem to be able to do anything. I was intrigued by your review of the book, so it's been pushed to the top of my goodreads list!