because it has a drowning, and murder and all of these other things, it sold very quickly to doubledayand that is still my publisher. i'm very fortunate to have the same publisher, editor, agent for 15 years. mr. lamb: who is the first person in your life that said, you know, you can write? ms. millard: that was actually my husband. he was a correspondent with the "new york times," a bureau chief and he actually is the person who first told me the story about winston churchill because he began his career as a journalist in south africa covering the anc and he had left the times to go to law school and start this company, and i was working for him freelance and gave him some clips and when he told me that i could write, i believed him. mr. lamb: how did you get to the kansas city area of kansas? ms. millard: i had actually moved there right before my senior year of high school. my father worked for sprint, which is headquartered in kansas city. i grew up in ohio which is another connection i had to james garfield, the subject of my second book. so i am very midwestern, and i met him the