For a number of loyal fans of contemporary literature, maybe name of Judith Ryan Hendricks is not as popular as Nora Roberts, Lauren Weisberger, or Stephenie Meyer, but sufficiently familiar sounded amongst the other phenomenal authors in America. Initiated her debut by releasing “Bread Alone” (which went on to a best seller) in the early 2002, Judith has succesfully brought her name to the stamp of “Sagacious woman” because of her affinity in assembling tactful words on her first masterpiece. Yet, her bright aptitude is clearly shown when kneading, roasting, and nibbling a bread have become usual in her life, even can be the curative ones.
Born in a small district named Silicon Valley, California from middle class family, the first daughter of two, whose parents didn’t hold academic title emblem and writing talent inheritance (she admits, her mother has affected her then to be an amiable reader). Nomadic circumstances coloured young Judith’s life, from San Hose, Castro Valley, moved to Los Angeles until ended to the settlement in Atlanta. But Judith made her own path, leaped from one state to another and eventually stepped in to Santa Fe.
At the age of seven, she got her first ‘summon’ to write a story about a missing chrismast tree from one family then her best friend Lyn Davis followed her trace, plotted few stories to play in her garage where full kids-loaded, and were eager to watch. She never mentioned any particular memory blissfully-happened in her teenagehood (just normal behavior of a teen girl, the crustiness overloaded to one of basketball teams in Senior High )
Obtaining a title as Journalism degree didn’t make her perception of the first job would steady permanently. Unlike the other writers who have many varian of prestigious jobs before devoting their life in ‘literature sphere’, Judith’s life filled with lots of petty occupations. She worked as a copywriter and journalist as well at an unpopular mass media, tried to be a computer instructor then turned to a travel agent. Not long after, she swiveled her course to a telecommunication company, worked as a public relation then ultimately landed on what she became so in love with it, a baker. Though there was a time when she had to enforced herself not to no longer baking due to serious surgery she had, she decided to give a focus on ‘writing endeavor’ (in her idle time period) at UC Irvine, “It was like sitting down in an unfamiliar chair and finding it so comfortable you never want to get up,” she stated as quoted from her official website (-judithryanhendricks.com-).
At the time when she got some writing lessons at UC Irvine, she joined Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and it was Andrew Tonkovich who had given her the biggest affection in learning how to make a good story, though there many other instructors whom she admired. “The year I attended, they had not yet started a nonfiction program, but in his classes at UCI Andrew had showed us how to use fiction techniques—setting, point of view, dialogue, etc—to write compelling non-fiction. It was in his class that I came to the realization that it was all one. All writing. Andrew gave us the tools and the freedom to use them for anything we wanted to write,” she said as noted during interview session at (-www.litpark.com-).
Bread Alone is her first creative-writing and also a craft that make her so into with the plotline, which she always thinks twenty four hours in a day would have not be enough for her to work on it. Now Bread Alone has been known worldwide and translated into 11 languanges in the world. Follows its success, the three more books she has produced (The Baker Apprentice, Isabel's Daughter and The Laws Of Harmony) gain a well-welcoming from her fanatics readers. There’s no record-written left on what year she was born precisely. Her current life now is with her lovely husband, Geoff who once handed her a piece of poetic paper at her birthday without having children. (Nsri)
