The Year the Gypsies Came by Linzi Glass

Taking writing classes on the college level also inspired her to produce plays, articles, and screenplays in addition to her novel. She eventually began a career in the entertainment industry, working as a script reader and as a literary coordinator for a talent agency. Around this time, Glass began writing and publishing her poetry and short stories.

'I was fortunate enough to have been born into a family of the 'haves'.' When Glass was twelve years old, her father, an opponent of the country's racist social system, moved his family to England and later to the United States. 'It always pained me to have grown up in a country where there were so clearly the haves and have-nots and skin colour was all that determined which camp one fell into,' the writer stated in an interview posted on her home page. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Glass grew up during the apartheid era, and draws on her childhood experiences in forming the backdrop of her fiction. Linzi Glass, an accomplished business-woman, philanthropist, and author, published her debut young-adult novel, The Year the Gypsies Came, in 2006. The Year the Gypsies Came (young-adult novel), Holt ( New York, NY), 2006.Īlso author of articles, plays, screenplays, and short stories. Has worked as a freelance script reader and as a literary coordinator for Creative Artists Agency, Los Angeles, CA. Cofounder of Jeffrey Katz Bone Marrow Transplant Fund for Children cofounder of (clothing business).

Agent- William Morris Agency, 1325 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019. Education: Attended Lee Strasberg Theater Institute attended University of California, Los Angeles Extension Writers Program. Inventory No: 257456.Born in Johannesburg, South Africa immigrated to United States father an educator married Marvin Katz (an entertainment lawyer marriage ended) children: Jordan. Category: Children's::Children's Fiction ISBN: 0141382791. Enclosing all this is the incredibly close and warm relationship Emily has with the old Zulu gatekeeper, Buza, who tells her Zulu folktales to help her through and make sense of her problems. But then tragedy strikes and their lives are changed forever. Emily and Streak form a close friendship and Emily's beloved, gentle older sister Sarah takes Otis in hand.

One spring a family of wanderers - an Australian couple and their two boys, Streak and Otis, who is brain damaged - comes to stay. 11-year-old Emily looks forward to these guests as she knows her parents will set their quarrels aside, and, if only for a short time, be like a real family. In Johannesburg in the late 1960s, the Iris family take in house guests from time to time to diffuse the tension in their large but unhappy home.

The Year the Gypsies Came by Linzi Glass