From USC & CSULA
A teen-aged pianist thunderstruck by the jarring sounds created by a jazz master pianist. A writer overhearing a boy tell his sister at an air show that "girls can never be fighter pilots." Who knows what creative spark will lead to an intriguing tome? Here's two tales of how a biography of Thelonius Monk and a prize-winning juvenile novel got launched.
Photos: cover of Michael Ferrari's middle-school spy thriller, l, and Monk biographer Robin Kelley
Straight into junk, dust, mice for the chaser of a biography of a jazz giant
A master's thesis takes wing as a middle-school spy thriller
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