A Debut Novel 20 Years in the Making
For Lili Wright, that rejection from a Salt Lake Tribune editor turned out to be pivotal.
Lili Wright’s Good Reads essay is not only a wonderful chronology of how she came to produce Dancing With the Tiger, a Mexico-set novel that came out last week. It’s also a snapshot of her views on life, love, the creative process and the mad world that surrounds us.
Wright now lives in Indiana. But back in the mid-1990s, she was a reporter for the Salt Lake Tribune. When she pitched a story about the death of her Spanish night class teacher John Bahoric, it sent her down a whole new professional path:
When I returned from Mexico, John was not well.
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