The Waltons, the gentle morality of The Andy Griffith Show, even galaxies far, far away. “A good story can come out of something common with uncommon situations,” she says. In that sense, Mann has been living a good story all along—a story built not on literary prestige but on service, on meeting people exactly where they are, and on a lifelong instinct to transform need into narrative. Her words are not meant to impress; they are meant to steady. And for countless readers, students, and inmates, that has made all the difference. EC
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