Stephenie Meyer
Stephenie Meyer was born in
Connecticut in 1973. Her family had settled in Phoenix by the time
she was four. The unusual spelling of her name was a gift from my
father, Stephen (Stephen + ie = Stephenie). She has had her name
spelled wrong on pretty much everything my entire life long.
She attended Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah. While
attending BYU Stephenie majored in English, but concentrated on
literature rather than creative writing, mostly because she didn't
consider reading books as work. During Stephenie’s college years,
she heard all the lame jokes about English majors' future careers in
the food services industries. (She got the last laugh on those
critics didn’t she.)
She met, Pancho (his real name is Christiaan, but no one calls him
that), her future husband, when she was four, but they were never
anywhere close to being childhood sweethearts. In fact, though they
saw each other at least weekly through church activities, she can't
recall a single instance when they so much as greeted each other
with a friendly wave, let alone exchanged actual words while they
were growing up. That came about during their college years. They've
been married for ten and a half years now, and have three beautiful,
brilliant, wonderful boys who often remind her of chimpanzees on
lots of Caffeine.
Spotlight on “Three Cups of Tea” by Greg Mortensen
Greg Mortenson, and acclaimed journalist David Oliver Relin, recount
the unlikely journey that led Mortenson from a failed attempt to
climb Pakistan’s K2, the world’s second highest mountain, to
successfully building schools in some of the most remote regions of
Afghanistan and Pakistan. By replacing guns with pencils, rhetoric
with reading, Mortenson combines his unique background with his
intimate knowledge of the third-world to fight terrorism with books,
not bombs, and successfully bring education and hope to remote
villages in central Asia. THREE CUPS OF TEA is at once an
unforgettable adventure and the inspiring true story of how one man
really is changing the world—one school at a time.
In 1993 Mortenson was descending from his failed attempt to reach
the peak of K2. Exhausted and disoriented, he wandered away from his
group into the most desolate reaches of northern Pakistan. Alone,
without food, water, or shelter he eventually stumbled into an
impoverished Pakistani village where he was nursed back to health.
While recovering he observed the village’s 84 children sitting
outdoors, scratching their lessons in the dirt with sticks. The
village was so poor that it could not afford the $1-a-day salary to
hire a teacher. When he left the village, he promised that he would
return to build them a school.
From that rash, heartfelt promise grew one of the most incredible
humanitarian campaigns of our time: Greg Mortenson’s one-man mission
to counteract extremism and terrorism by building schools—especially
for girls—throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban.
The Staff of the Roosevelt Library will be hosting a book discussion
on this book on Tuesday, October 14. If you are interested in
obtaining a copy contact a member of the library staff. They will
have books available for patrons to check out beginning Monday,
September 15. You are more than welcome to join in the discussion
even if you haven’t read the book. For more information contact them
at
722-4441.
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