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 uxedo Park - "By
the time I was 11, I had read just about every book - fiction
and non-fiction - at my branch library, best selling novelist
Nancy Taylor Rosenberg told a gathering recently at the Tuxedo
Club.
"Reading is the key to knowledge. All my
plans for my future came from books." said Rosenberg, who now
lives and writes in Tuxedo Park. She, the mother of five
children, a former model and a police officer, who spent 14
years in law enforcement until "I burned out."
Following a severe horseback accident while
undergoing rehabilitation to walk again, she saw the opportunity
to write "my novel," a dream since childhood.
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Rosenberg said she was a prolific reader
as a youngster and always wanted to have a book on the shelf of
a library that was her very own.
After feeling she was ridiculed in a writing
class at UCLA, she said she was depressed for a week. "But I'm a
fighter, so I sat down at my old Smith-Corona typewriter in the
kitchen and wrote "Mitigating Circumstances." Her back rights
for the book sold for $787,000.
The Nancy Taylor Rosenberg function helped
the library reach its goal of raising $70,000 for a matching
grant from the Kornfeld Foundation for furnishings and computers
for the recently renovated Tuxedo Park Library.
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