title: The Long Steep Path: Everyday Inspiration from the Author of Pay It Forward
author:  Catherine Ryan Hyde 
description: Catherine Ryan Hyde is the author and co-author of twenty-four books, including When I Found You, Second Hand Heart, When You Were Older, and Dont Let Me Go. Her novel Pay It Forward was included on the ALAs Best Books for Young Adults list, translated into twenty-three foreign editions, and turned into a major Warner Brothers motion picture. Her short stories have received honorable mentions in the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, nominations for Pushcart Prizes and the O. Henry Award, and citations in the Best American Short Stories anthologies. Along with Anne R. Allen, she recently co-authored How To Be A Writer In The E-Age: a Self-Help Guide. An avid traveler and amateur photographer, she has hiked the Grand Canyon, the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, and many more of the worlds most beautiful places. She currently resides in Cambria, California.
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  * [Also by Catherine Ryan Hyde Say Goodbye for Now Leaving Blythe River Ask Him Why Worthy The Language of Hoofbeats Pay It Forward: Young Readers Edition Take Me with You Paw It Forward 365 Days of Gratitude: Photos from a Beautiful World Where We Belong Subway Dancer and Other Stories Walk Me Home Always Chloe and Other Stories The Long, Steep Path: Everyday Inspiration from the Author of Pay It Forward How to Be a Writer in the E-Age: A Self-Help Guide When You Were Older Don’t Let Me Go Jumpstart the World Second Hand Heart When I Found You Diary of a Witness The Day I Killed James Chasing Windmills The Year of My Miraculous Reappearance Love in the Present Tense Becoming Chloe Walter’s Purple Heart Electric God/The Hardest Part of Love Pay It Forward Earthquake Weather and Other Stories Funerals for Horses](text/part0001.html#alsopage)
  
  
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