 TAPESTRY:
THE JOURNEY OF LAUREL LEE
In
1975, twenty-nine year old Laurel Lee was diagnosed with
Hodgkin's Disease and told by doctors she was going to die.
Her husband, unable to cope, leaves her and three little
children to fend for themselves. While
Laurel fights desperately for her life, she keeps a journal.
That journal, sent to publishers by her doctors, became
the best selling book and CBS movie, Walking Through
The Fire. Contrary to her prognosis, Laurel did not
die but was propelled into world wide travel, adventure,
challenge and sheer determination. "In one stroke, I cut with some mental shears that
fifty-more-years river, leaving me a short stretch ... I
want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children
and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into
the high place."
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Born October 21, 1945, in Chicago, IL;
daughter of James Edward and Ruth Bennett Moore; married
to New York children's book author, Mike Thaler; children:
Matthew Lee, Anna Lee Cairney, Mary Elizabeth Lee;
Attended
Pacific University and University of California, Berkeley.
At George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon, she began as
an adjunct professor and became full-time instructor in
creative writing department. [1990 to 1998]
She became a published author of four autobiographies
and several children's books; former adjunct professor at
Hofstra University, St. Andrews School, Mara a Pula, and
Kiev State Pedagogical Institute.
Writings—For Adults: Walking Through
the Fire, 1977 Dutton; Signs of Spring 1979 Dutton; Mourning
Into Dancing 1984 Dutton; Godspeed 1988 Harper; To Comfort
You 1984 Stirrup Associates; For Children: Barnaby Frost
1979 Tyndale; Barnaby Frost Plants A Seed 1980 Tyndale;
A Very Special Birth Day 1984 Cornerstone; My Jesus Pocketbook
of God’s Greatest Day 1985 Stirrup Associates; The Christmas
Program; Learning To Count; Contributor to periodicals,
including: Washington Post, Family Circle, Aujourd'hui,
Bunte, and My Fair Lady. Adaptations—Walking Through
The Fire was adapted for television with a screenplay by
Sue Grafton, CBS 1979.
Health—Since 1976, when Laurel Lee
was diagnosed with fourth-stage Hodgkin's Disease, she had
lived with the threat of cancer. After a short remission
of Hodgkin's, she had a relapse. Contrary to doctors' predictions
however, Laurel survived the disease and went on to raise
her three children, travel around the world and share her
story. For nearly twenty years, she remained cancer free.
Then in the fall of 2003, Laurel was diagnosed with fourth-stage
pancreatic cancer. On August 10, 2004, Laurel Lee passed
away from complications of the cancer.
"My
memory pulls out special days and old ways that had had
their fragrance. The meditation of death progresses. It
is like a dark glass I have to pass through. I know it will
all have to be faced again—Some more black and white
runs, and once in living color." —Laurel, 1980
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