What, Why, How: Jean M. Peck

What:

My very first piece of fiction was written in the 5th grade, entitled, “The Ugly Princess: Believe it or Not.” It was inspired by all those fairy tales with beautiful princesses, but I worried about the ones who were not blonde, blue-eyed, and thin. I wanted to go the other way. That was about it for fiction, because I was soon drawn to journalism where I wrote about the kinds of people no one else wanted to write about. I came back to fiction because I wanted to try it out. When I was...