I wrote when I was a freshman in college. I last wrote about Susan a very, very long time ago, but she too came back right away. In many ways I think the book is more about her. It’s much more clear to me why she behaves the way she does. Now I get the mother in a whole different way. When I wrote the original books I was Meg’s age, certainly the same sensibility. I would have thought it would be difficult. What made you return to characters you created over two decades ago? And what was it like to come back to them? Feiwel and Friends will reissue the three earlier President’s Daughter books, subtly updated by White to reflect the current era. Feiwel and Friends (the Holtzbrinck imprint founded by White’s longtime editor Jean Feiwel) will publish Long May She Reign, in which Meg deals with the aftermath of her kidnapping while starting at Williams College, where a hard-won friend turns out to be Susan, heroine of Friends for Life. Two sequels followed: White House Autumn (1985), where Meg copes with her mother being shot by a would-be assassin, and Long Live the Queen (1989), in which Meg is kidnapped by terrorists and barely escapes with her life. Her sophomore effort (written, fittingly enough, during her sophomore year) was The President’s Daughter it centered on Meg Powers, daughter of the nation’s first woman president. Ellen Emerson White was an 18-year-old freshman at Tufts University when she wrote her first novel, Friends for Life, a prep school murder mystery that was published in 1983.
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