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Alan Bradley is the New York Times bestselling author of many short stories, children's stories, newspaper columns, and the memoir The Shoebox Bible. His first Flavia de Luce novel, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, received the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger Award, the Dilys Winn Award, the Arthur Ellis Award, the Agatha Award, the Macavity Award, and the Barry Award, and was nominated for the Anthony Award. His other Flavia de Luce novels are The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, A Red Herring Without Mustard, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Speaking from Among the Bones, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches, As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust, and Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd, as well as the ebook short story "The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse."
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With the publication of The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, you've
become a 70-year-old-first time novelist. Have you always had a passion for
writing—or is it more of a recent development?
Well, the Roman author Seneca once said something like this: "Hang on to
your youthful enthusiasms – you'll be able to use them better when you're
older." So to put it briefly, I'm taking his advice.
I actually spent most of my life working on the technical side of television
production, but would like to think that I've always been a writer. I started
writing a novel at age five, and have written articles for various publications
all my life. It wasn't until my early retirement, though, that I started writing
books. I published my memoir, The Shoebox Bible, in 2004, and then
started working on a mystery about a reporter in England. It was during the
writing of this story that I stumbled across Flavia de Luce, the main character
in Sweetness.
Flavia certainly is an interesting character. How did you come up with such a
forceful, precocious and entertaining personality?
Flavia walked onto the page of another book I was writing, and simply hijacked
the story. I was actually well ...
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