Donna Gordon
What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me
(Literary fiction, June, Regal House)
“A dying boy and his caretaker—a survivor of Argentina’s Dirty War—journey to Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia to look for the caretaker’s missing wife and child who had been among the Disappeared.”
Cambridge, Mass. In my 20s, I was writing poetry and publishing in literary magazines.… My sentences got longer and became prose. I got the courage to start my first novel, . An agent… agreed to rep my book, but only sent it to 12 editors. I was asked to rewrite it by two of the editors, but both turned it down. Years passed. I got married, had two children, was a freelance writer for and other publications. … Overall, it took close to nine years before I didn’t have an agent for this book. I
