Toni V. Lee

1) When did you first realize that you wanted to be a writer? Was there anything in your childhood that influenced you to become a writer? Like most children, I always had my own imaginary little world. Then, when I was ten years old, Mary Martin appeared on black and white television playing Peter Pan. If you’ll forgive the pun, that’s when my fantasies really took flight because it was such a happy tale. I wanted to make up stories like that, too. I loved to write in school, often turning ordinary term papers into fiction that incorporated my research. There was always a story simmering in my imagination. But my children were all in school when I finally began to write seriously. 2) Although you have written several novels, what inspired you to specifically write a historical trilogy of the post Civil War era? The Civil War was such an important turning point in United States history because it defined what we would become as a nation. In this series, I wanted to explore why Reconst...