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 Born in Apache, Oklahoma, the setting for four of her seven
award-winning books, Molly Levite Griffis spent the winters of her childhood listening to the stories told around the potbellied stove in Levite’s Handy Corner, her parents’ general store. Sweetened by
jellybeans from the store’s rolled glass candy case, Mrs. Griffis’ summers were whiled away on the banks of Cache Creek, where she fished for crawdads with her daddy’s handkerchiefs and honed
her skills as a storyteller by inventing excuses for the fishy smell in the family’s laundry hamper. Her older sister, Georgann, who didn’t fish for crawdads with their father’s handkerchiefs or ever do
anything else naughty, was (and continues to be) her inspiration if not her role model.
Mrs. Griffis is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and lives in Norman,
Oklahoma. She has two grown children, a red-haired daughter, who was the inspiration for Rachel, and a writer son who lives in the Czech Republic.
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