To show that she could do more than just write stories, she wrote a book with Ogden Codman, "The Decoration of Houses."

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She began to write her own stories when she was only seven years old.

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Yet,she felt she did not have the imagination to write creative stories.

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She liked to read and to write poems and stories.

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