Better known for her ten young adult novels and numerous, award winning, bilingual picture books (in particular her Pepita series), Ofelia Dumas Lachtman published her first and so far only novel for adults, A Shell for Angela, in 1995, at an age (seventy-five) when most writers, I can only presume, might be contemplating retirement rather than taking a new challenge head-on and the manifold risks involved writing in a brand new realm like literary fiction. But Lachtman, born July 9th, 1919, and who still resides in her native Los Angeles, seems to have managed just fine. Mother of two, Lachtman worked as a stenographer during WWII.
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