A Note About Homework, for Students and Teachers

If your teacher has requested that you e-mail a writer requesting details about his or her life, please give your teacher the link to this page. If you are a teacher who is considering making this assignment, please read the following.

Dear Teacher,

I appreciate that having your students write to writers asking for personal information about their lives must seem like an exciting class idea. However, for those of us who write for a living, and who receive quite a number of requests of this sort every year, the prospect of participating in homework, with the added blackmail that the student will do poorly if we do not agree to use our work time or, more likely, personal and family time, to make sure they get a good grade, is loathesome.

I graduated from the demands of teachers and their rights to my time more than twenty years ago; I am a public person only to the extent that I choose to be, unlike movie stars and others who have given up their privacy in exchange for huge paychecks; and I do not choose to discuss the intimate details of my personal life, my childhood, or how both relate to my writing so that you'll have something on your lesson plan for the semester.

Don't ask your students to do this. They don't enjoy it, and we don't have time for it.

All my best wishes,

Holly Lisle

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