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Carolyn Wheat

  • “It's never too late to have a happy childhood.”

  • “It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.”

    • Carolyn Wheat,
    • "Life, for Short," in Marilyn Wallace, ed., Sisters in Crime ()

  • “We don't want to read a book. We want to live an experience.”

    • Carolyn Wheat,
    • in Sue Grafton, ed., Writing Mysteries ()

Carolyn Wheat, U.S. lawyer, editor, writer

Occasional pseudonym: Corintha Bennett.