About Elizabeth Eastwood
About Elizabeth Eastwood
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Elizabeth Eastwood is the pen name of a retired writer, editor, and publisher of curriculum materials and textbooks for elementary school students. A former teacher, she produced teaching guides and authored articles and newsletters about best practices. In the early 1990s, she adopted two Peruvian children as a single woman and raised them in a suburb of San Francisco.
Eastwood divides her time between California and her native Wisconsin where she likes to hike, bike, kayak, read novels, and write about life’s everyday challenges.
An Interview with Elizabeth Eastwood
An Interview with Elizabeth Eastwood
Learn about the author's reasons for writing the memoir, her process choosing a title, and her experiences in educational publishing. Plus, find out about her next book—a novel
Read the interview here.
A Note from the Author
A Note from the Author
I used pseudonyms for the people and places in this memoir, including my two children and myself. Elizabeth Eastwood is my nom de plume. I reached the decision reluctantly due to the sensitivity surrounding many of the events I describe. For ethical reasons, I disguised the identities of people I met in the Peruvian adoption world and any immigrants I knew in the United States who might have been undocumented. I also felt compelled in our highly charged litigious world to conceal the identities of schools, companies, and organizations that I described in sometimes unflattering ways. In some cases, I conveyed the substance of conversations and events rather than describing them exactly as they occurred. Except for these changes, I’m with Them represents an accurate account of events as I remember them.
–Elizabeth Eastwood
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