The Commercial Appeal is an E.W. Scripps Company newspaper. Print this article E-mail this article Writers mine their childhoods, with quirky results Aspiring writers are told to write what they know.
Some lives are worth recounting, though.
Some are more bizarre than others. And some of those end up as TV series. Suzanne Martin is a good example. Her mother was so cheap she cut paper napkins in half in order to save money. Martin's grandmother hid bananas all around the house.