*|FNAME|*, I keep getting surprised by the Taylor Caldwell Open Road promotions. They didn't tell me about this one, but I will use this newsletter to advertise it, and two other contributions. I am going through the process of considering how I can make more of Peggy's autobiography available, as a way to see Taylor Caldwell, talented and immensely energetic, and an influence – as she was well aware – on many. I continue on Peggy's autobiography after the promotion.

Today there will be a sale on "Your Sins and Mine," available at the usual Open Road website here.

Here is an Open Road review of the novel.

First there were the changes in weather. Lack of rain was turning the plains of Iowa, Kansas, and Idaho into arid blocks of parched earth. In the North, it was already January, and no sign of snow. All over the world, the seas were shrinking, and creeks and rivers looked like dried scars...But Earth’s survivors must face something even more frightful than nature: the evil of men, in this “brilliant” dystopian fable of a world without faith (Springfield Republican).

The previous offering on Peggy's autobiography, did feature Peggy's anguish upon realizing that her father – the Descendants' Grandfather – would not rescue her from a difficult home life with TC, a new mother with her second child (Judy), accompanied by TC's second husband (Marcus Reback), the father of that child.

I said previously I will have that scanned file soon as a more readable manuscript file. Followed by two different offerings on the autobiography that are certain to interest TC fans.

Here I send you to a eulogy of Peggy. Peggy did almost, as those offerings show, come back for awhile to form a more useful relation with Taylor Caldwell. While doing so, she gives – in 18 substantive chapters – a most illuminating picture of TC. Yet, Peggy didn't quite come back. In witnessing her, as she came to her end, the eulogy wonders about her sad life.

Seeing a Mother Through Depression.
Peggy Fried, nee Mary Margaret Combs, passed away Monday, December 10, 2007. The last 55 years of her life seemed to those sympathetic, a strange and sad story. Even for her children it was hard to find her influence, for she was often depressed, and angry and aggressive toward them. Still, there have been incidents that coaxed from hiding that she had great, and decidedly positive influence. The html file tells an instance when a friend at UCLA happened upon the appearance of my mother as a young adult, an influence I would never have recognized directly. peggyfried.html

Michael Fried, Grandson
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