Through the Hidden Door (22 page)

Rosemary Wells at age three, in 1945.

Wells, at age four, poses for the camera.

Wells’s parents, James and Helen Warwick, in the early 1950s.

Wells’s father, James Warwick, a Hollywood screen actor, in a pith helmet in
Inside the Lines
, which premiered in 1930.

Wells’s mother, Helen Warwick, a dancer in the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, in 1925.

Wells horseback riding in Nevada in 1958.

Wells (right) and school friend at the US Open in Forest Hills, New York, with tennis star Alex Olmedo after he had just won his match.

Wells, at age twenty, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Wells’s husband, Tom Wells, an architect, in 1965.

Wells at age twenty-five.

In 2002, while on a research trip for her young adult novel
Red Moon at Sharpsburg
, Wells visited a Civil War reenactment at the Antietam battlefield.

Wells at a children’s bookstore in Portland, Oregon, in October 1985.

Wells with her Westie, Sophie, in 1990.

Wells with her husband, Tom, and their two dogs, in 1991.