Lucy Daniels is a writer and clinical psychologist in private practice in Raleigh, North Carolina. Daniels wrote her first novel, Caleb My Son (1956) while hospitalized with anorexia nervosa. A best seller published in several countries, it earned her a Guggenheim fellowship—at 22, she was the youngest recipient—that supported the writing of her second novel, High on a Hill (1961) about life in a mental hospital. But after that Daniels stopped writing. Instead, she raised her four children, went to college, and became a clinical psychologist. Only then did she receive, through psychoanalysis, the assistance she had needed for more than 25 years. This resulted in her memoir, With a Woman’s Voice (2002) and her first novel in over 40 years, The Eyes of the Father (2005) and a chronicle of her Continue reading Lucy Daniels, Writer and Psychoanalyst