Denise Brown

Growing up, Denise Brown was an avid reader of anything she could get her hands on. She adored Dr. Seuss and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and she's pretty sure that her dad was called into school one time to explain to the teacher why he allowed seven-year-old Denise to read what she called 'saucy limericks'. The rhymes had been faithfully recreated in her exercise book. Without this love of books and reading, she might never have written her own.