Reeve Lindbergh

As a child

Reeve Lindbergh grew up in a household where writing was a way of life. Her mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was a well-known author, and her father, Charles Lindbergh, was as respected for his writing as he was as an aviator. "I can't recall any time during my childhood when one of my parents was not engaged in writing a book," she says. "This made us believe that the best thing you could do with an interesting idea or experience was to write it down."

As an adult

Reeve Lindbergh lives in the remote Northeast Kingdom area of Vermont on a farm with her husband and youngest son.

As an artist

Reeve's most recent book was inspired by her experiences as an adult, watching her mother and her son together. My Little Grandmother Often Forgets, illustrated by Kathryn Brown, is a deeply personal and lyrical tale about a grandson and a grandmother affected by memory loss. "When my mother came to live with us on our farm in Vermont she was old and fragile, with the kind of memory loss that caused her to feel disorientated often," she explains. "It was really disconcerting and troubling for my son, as it was for her and for all of us, for a while. Thank goodness, as time went on everybody relaxed and gave up on all this organizing and reminding. Then it was possible to spend time with my mother, just to be with her quietly in a family, all together. I thought this story might mean something to other children and other families confronted by memory loss in an older family member, though I altered it a bit, and made it a rhyming story. I really wanted My Little Grandmother Often Forgets to be fun to read - not a lecture for children on Alzheimer's Disease and dementia, just a story, in rhyme, like all the others I write."