If you want to know more (really?  You do?!?!), here’s a whole chapter about me, including old family photos!

That ends in 1998, when I wrote it.  It’s interwoven with poetry, it was scary to write, and I like the way it turned out.

Or you can go to the library and look up same thing in the reference series called

SOMETHING ABOUT THE AUTHOR-AUTOBIOGRAPHY SERIES. Every chapter is the autobiography of a children’s book author.  My life is in volume 26.

And here’s something completely random…it’s a 9:51 minute film my father, Leahn J. Halprin, made of the aftermath of the 1955 flood that destroyed our farm.  I’m thrilled that someone put it on the web.  Dad, historian/artist/philospher/farmer that he was, would have gotten a kick out of the fact that his documentation lives on…