DECEMBER 1996 ISSUE
FEATURE OF THE WEEK:
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas talks about the Nativity, as the animals saw it
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas turns out to be a remarkably good-humored sort of heretic. She possesses a rich, inviting laugh that burbles up frequently during a cross-country phone conversation about her new book, Certain Poor Shepherds: A Christmas Tale. Despite a recent, near-epic deluge that's soaked large swaths of New Hampshire, she pronounces autumn at her home in Peterborough "glorious, heavenly." Not even a sudden onslaught of obligations that has her working seven days a week seems to dampen her spirits: "I'm trying to follow a cat with a radio collar; I'm trying to make a video of interactions between animals; I have another book to write; and, suddenly, I have a lot of family obligations that I never had before. I feel like the woman in that commercial," she says, laughing, " 'I've fallen behind and I just can't catch up.' "
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