Inside the Mind of Rowan Hooper: The Shocking Truth Behind Togetherness Revealed
HMM: How long were you working on this book?
RH: The proposal itself took a good six months to write, and it went back and forth between me and my agent, and then it got sent out. Then when I started writing it, I took nine months off just to work on the book and do research and writing and traveling and all of that. At the end of a year I had a first draft, and then I sent that to my editor, and it took basically another year to rework that draft into the state of the book now.
HMM: The end product was that you could seamlessly move from history, to present, to more recent past, people in the field today, and stories from all over the world. I’m familiar with some of the people you talk about, and others were less familiar to me, so I appreciated the way things built on each other. It was very interconnected, to build on the theme of the book, so that when I got to the chapter on Rachel Carson, with whom I’m very familiar, I could understand how each of the pieces fit together. Carson is one of the writers you mention in this book. Who are some of the climate and nature writers that you think everyone should be reading?
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