Ruth Sawyer
Birth date: August 05, 1880
Died: June 03, 1970
Ruth Sawyer's Books
Although Ruth Sawyer’s quaint “The Way of the Storyteller” is more a book about verbal storytelling than it is about written storytelling, there is still much wisdom to be found in its pages.Sawyer’s passion for stories shines through the pages and her rich experiences in interpreting the written wo...
Eh. It’s a typical late 40s-early 50s romance: sweet and innocent. But it lacks the dash of the Lucinda stories [Oct. 2008]
We revisit Lucinda from Roller Skates, several years older and suffering from the recent loss of her father. This has a very different feel from Roller Skates. Older and less exuberant. But Lucinda is still Lucinda and it’s a beautiful book. [Oct. 2008]
I got this book for Christmas, and I was surprised that I'd never heard of it before. I adore Sawyer's Roller Skates, and thought I'd read all of her other books. This one is in a lot of ways a textbook. Sawyer examines storytelling down through the ages, and though there are some dated parts which ...