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Olive Higgins Prouty & her dog Kim

Olive Higgins Prouty Biography Works Photos "Most of her novels were written in an upstairs library at her home in Brookline, Massachusetts, at a drop-leaf table equipped with 8-by-10-inch manila copybooks and a mug of soft pencils. Her poetry, however, was written at different places -- on fishing trips and when she was travling alone or with Fater -- at odd moments and on various pieces of paper. My mother loved nature and people. Wherever she went she brought the tools of her trade and would find a place to sit and write" -Richard Prouty from the foreword of Between the Barnacles and Bayberries