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
  
  
  Have You Seen Luis Velez?
  
  
  Just After Midnight
  
  
  Heaven Adjacent
  
  
  The Wake Up
  
  
  Allie and Bea
  
  
  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 Othe