It was called The Loving Season, published under the name Rebecca Burton. The seed eventually became a novel and was published in 1979. "By the time I’d finished sorting through all those teenage thoughts, observations and opinions, the seeds of a story had begun to form in my mind. At the time I thought she was insane, but because I adore my mother I did as she asked. My mother kept them and one day, after I had become a mother for the second time, she sent me all my old letters and asked me to write my memories from them for posterity. "Having said that, I did write letters to my parents while I was away at boarding school when I was 17. If anyone had told me I would become a writer, let alone love it, I would have laughed and dismissed the notion as absolutely absurd and preposterous. "In the first place, I never liked to write anything -I only wrote mandatory papers for school. "I went through a back door to begin my writing career," she says. For the past 15 years, she's taught junior-high and high-school French and history, and says she got into serious writing almost by accident. in secondary education, history, French, and Spanish from the University of Utah and did postgraduate work in Arabic.īecause of her studies overseas, Rebecca decided to become a teacher and studied French and history at her alma mater in Utah. Upon returning to the U.S., Rebecca developed her love of languages when she earned her B.A.
When she was 17, she went to boarding school in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she learned to speak French and met girls from all over the world. in secondary education, history, French, and Spanish from the University of Rebecca Winters, an American writer and mother of four, lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. Rebecca Winters, an American writer and mother of four, lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.