A pro …

… Janet Lewis: “Whenever I’m writing, I’m interested in everything, because I’m still waiting for the next page.”

For Lewis, writing is “putting things in order in my head” so as to be able to perceive a situation as completely as possible. This was one of the motivating forces of her novel, Against a Darkening Sky, which describes the effect of the encroaching terror of World War II on an ordinary Northern California family.