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ELIZABETH HOYT FUN FACTS
At sixteen Elizabeth Hoyt was once accidentally locked in the Ashmolean Museum—the
oldest museum in Britain—in Oxford England. Apparently, she didn’t
hear the bell that warns that the museum is about to close. She denies categorically
that the reason she didn’t hear the bell was because at the time she was
looking at risqué Greek pottery.
Elizabeth spent much of her youth catching frogs in the ponds of Minnesota—her
father was a frog biologist. To this day she is one of the few people in the world
who can tell the difference between a frog and a toad.
Elizabeth has been a bridesmaid in three weddings. In two of the three weddings
she was pregnant and thus has two different maternity bridesmaid dresses hanging
in her closet. She plans some day to pass these exceedingly useless garments on
to her daughters with instructions to cherish them forever.
Elizabeth once won a pumpkin in a fourth grade composition contest. Despite—or
perhaps because—of this prize she did not take up writing again until she
was thirty-five.
Elizabeth has three dogs named (in descending size) Max, Fritz, and Pickle.
All three dogs are mutts and were acquired from the local animal shelter. None
of the dogs are trained.
Elizabeth met Mr. Hoyt on an archaeological dig. Her initial impression was
that he was something of a jerk. Time would prove otherwise.
Elizabeth is an avid—some would say rabid—gardener. She has twenty-six
named varieties of daylilies in her garden and too many different hostas to count.
Don’t get her started about the iniquity of slugs.
Elizabeth detests raw tomatoes and has been known to hide cherry tomatoes
under the rim of her plate when they are served in her salad at banquets. This
rarely works.
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