Constance. Fourteen years old, snatched from a familiar, comfortable life in London by an enthusiastic adventurer of a father, carted off to a land of wolves and Indians--how did she feel? I spent a lot of time thinking about her." Clapp didn't publish after 1986 but in her working years she alternated her writing with her work in community theater and spending time with her family. She explained in Something About the Author in 1987: "Writing I can do when I choose to, not because I have to for financial reasons. I can afford to wait for the first flicker of an idea, to spend as long as I like on research, and then to lose myself in another era, living with people I will only know in my imagination, but who will become totally real to me." Her papers are archived at the De Grummond Collection, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg. References 1912 births 2003 deaths Writers from Cambridge, Massachusetts American writers of young adult literature American women children's writers American children's writers American women novelists 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American novelists American historical fiction writers 21st-century American women