Eileen Saint Lauren grew up in a small, two-red-light town in South Mississippi called Petal--The Friendly
City. Her Momma was a Sunday School teacher and her Daddy a Carpenter. Growing
up, the only entertainment, social or otherwise, St. Lauren was afforded was going to church on Sunday and to town
on Saturday. And during the weekdays, visiting her neighbors, the sick and dying, the mental institutions and city
jails along with the old folks homes was something she and her folks did because "the Lord said it was the right thing
to do." For years, she thought all those strangers were somehow related to her. Her Momma taught her to love everyone, pray
for the sick and dying, and no matter what a body had done, to show mercy and forgiveness. She remembers she and her
momma spending many days and nights by the side of a dying strangers, giving them their last sip of water or last
meal because they had no one else to show them unconditional love.
St. Lauren was an intuitive,
compassionate child who learned early on that people would tell her anything and everything about their lives. She believes
that simply listening to their stories with compassion served as the first step to her becoming a writer. She believes
that writing is her calling in life.
She
likes to talk, laugh, smile, observe people, read, write, pray, cook, shop, collect art, listen to music, and travel.
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I believe
that writing is my calling in life.
I am
looking forward to sharing my characters and their stories with the world.
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Favorites
The Authors
Mark Twain, Sherwood Anderson, Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, Stephen
King, Elizabeth Dewberry (Butler), Eudora Welty, Harper Lee, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marly Youmans, Anna Jean Mayhew, Truman
Capote, John Steinbeck, Tennessee Williams, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, E.B. White, Leo Tolstoy, C.S. Lewis, Oswald
Chambers, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, Abraham Lincoln, Reynolds Price, Anne Tyler, Julius Lester, Toni Morrison, William "Bill"
Styron, Doris Betts, Elinor Lipman, Dr. Charles Stanley, Joel Osteen, and Joyce Meyer.
The Poets
Charles Edward Eaton, Richard Wilbur, Virgil, St. Augustine, Carl Sandburg,
Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, and William Shakespeare.
And all the writers and poets found in the Bible, Koran, and Torah.
The Movies
The Shining, The Birdcage, The Great Gatsby, Door to Door, Life is
Beautiful, O Brother, Where Art Thou? Paper Moon, Big Fish, Something's Gotta Give, Throw Momma from the Train, Fantasia,
It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story, Moonstruck, The Party, Driving Miss Daisy, Ponder Heart, Laurel and Hardy,
Green Acres, Saint Maybe, Breathing Lessons, Rose Red, Storm of the Century, Million Dollar Baby, Ray, Charlotte's Web,
and many others!
The Singers, Songwriters, and Performers
Sir Elton John, Bruce Hornsby, Seal, Taylor Hicks, Cat Stevens, Gordon
Lightfoot, Richard Harris, Barry White, James Taylor, Elvis, Sir Paul McCartney, Ray Charles, Carly Simon, Rod Stewart,
Billy Joel, Johnny Cash, Louis Armstrong, Little Richard, Lionel Richie, Neil Diamond, Tina Turner, Cyndi Lauper,
Cher, Luther Vandross, Duran Duran, Madonna, Sting, Fleetwood Mac, the Spinners, Prince, Janet Jackson, Fantasia,
Brooks Williams, Kenny Rogers, and Dolly Parton.
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