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The Crack in the Door:
How I Came to Write Bones in the White House

March 7, 2021February 6, 2020 by Candice Ransom

I’ve been keen on dinosaurs and Ice Age mammals my whole life, since I read Roy Chapman Andrews’ All About Dinosaurs. When I was nine, I added paleontologist to my string of future occupations (writer, artist, ballet dancer, detective). My love for Jefferson began when we moved to Fredericksburg in 1996. I was touring James Monroe’s Law Office downtown one day and learned how the building was nearly torn down in 1927 for a gas station when Monroe’s descendant stepped in and turned it into a museum.… more

Pterodactyls and Dragons

March 7, 2021December 5, 2019 by Candice Ransom

“The Boy chiefly dabbled in natural history and fairy-tales, and he just took them as they came, in a sandwichy sort of way, without making any distinctions; and really his course of reading strikes one as rather sensible.” The Reluctant Dragon Kenneth Grahame wrote “The Reluctant Dragon” as a chapter in his book Dream Days, in 1898, ten years before publishing The Wind in the Willows.… more

Catherine Thimmesh: Researching Paleoartistry

June 25, 2015 by Vicki Palmquist

Catherine Thimmesh, photo by Lori Dozier

How did you learn about paleoartists? While I was working on my book Lucy Long Ago, part of that research revealed the work of a paleoartist who reconstructed living creatures from paleo times based on fossil evidence, including the hominid, Lucy. How did you decide which paleoartists to contact? I researched the world's top paleoartists—as defined by the paleontologists and paleoartists themselves.… more

The Crack in the Door:
How I Came to Write Bones in the White House

Pterodactyls and Dragons

Catherine Thimmesh: Researching Paleoartistry

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