Edward Guthmann talks with 85-year-old, first-time author, Mildred Armstrong Kalish, whose childhood memories “saturate” the pages of Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression.”
“Kalish, who is 5 feet tall and speaks with a cascading energy and enthusiasm, says she was taken by surprise by her book's success and her induction into the fraternity of literary celebrities. ‘It's like a second life for us,' she says with a glance at Harry, her husband of 64 years. 'We're meeting people. And the e-mails! I feel as if I made several thousand new friends. I love it. It's fantastic.’” – from “Mildred Kalish’s Little House on the Farm,” by Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle