My grandmother Nellie died when I was eight. While we were cleaning out her house, I found a paperback copy of Willard Motley’s Knock on Any Door, published in 1947, and Dad said I could keep it. I read it and reread it so many times, I can still recite passages. “Live fast, die…
Deborah Ellis
Deborah Ellis has written over thirty books including, most recently, My Story Starts Here: Voices of Young Offenders.