Before writing books, Amy Hollingsworth wrote for various magazines and was a writer for eight years for The 700 Club. She holds a masters degree in counseling psychology and a bachelors degree in both English and psychology. She lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia, with her husband Jeff and their children.
“Letters from the Closet is a beautiful book: an unusually honest
memoir that explores the need for self-discovery and exposes the
dangers of self-delusion.”
*Scott Jordan Harris, UK correspondent for Roger Ebert and culture
blogger for The Daily Telegraph*
“I felt deep stirrings in the first few pages of this remarkable
book, stirrings that I eventually came to recognize as healing, my
own. With her exquisite prose, wisdom, wit, and most of all
courage, Amy Hollingsworth shows what wondrous things can happen
when we open our respective closets and let the darkness meet the
light. After the privilege of reading her here, I know I feel less
alone.”
*Tim Madigan, award-winning newspaper journalist and author of I’m
Proud of You: My Friendship with Fred Rogers*
“Rarely do I get excited about a book that comes my way, but
Letters from the Closet is beautifully written, intelligent,
multilayered, sensitive, and alarmingly mature. I promise you, you
will enjoy this book for its art and its insight. As I read it, I
felt that my heart was more active than my mind, but both were at
full speed. You need to read it more than once, because there's a
lot going on. If you don't read it at least once, you're missing
out on a rare treat. There is not a word out of place in this
skillfully written book.”
*Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul*
“The relationships that wield the most influence in our lives are
often complex. They defy tidy categories, intermingle joy with
pain, teach us how to live, and surpass even the power of death.
Letters from the Closet poignantly captures just such a
relationship. Part memoir, part love letter, and part tribute, the
book shows how words, letters, books, and dreams are woven together
to shape a life, a soul, and a love.”
*Karen Swallow Prior, author of Booked: Literature in the Soul of
Me*
“In this unique memoir, Amy Hollingsworth opens the door to her
intimate correspondence with her extraordinary high school English
teacher. I had anticipated that Letters from the Closet was going
to be about a teacher’s struggle with sexual orientation, but the
book turned out to be even more about the author’s own
self-exploration and discovery. By sharing the healing power of
their mutual self-disclosure, Amy invites us to join them in
lifting off our own masks—and identifying our own gifts and life
purpose.”
*Dr. David G. Myers, social psychologist, author, and professor of
psychology at Hope College*
“Psychologically astute and literarily informed, Amy Hollingsworth
makes poetry of closets—closed ones, bursting ones, neat ones, and
fearful ones. Yet there is one closet she does not mention, and it
is that one that is central to this deeply insightful memoir. It is
the one that a child enters, one filled with ghosts and frightful
encounters, and one through which she can only feel her way until
she bursts through the back and falls into maturity, wisdom, and
what might well be called New Creation.”
*Jim Street, Pastor, North River Church, Lawrenceville, GA*
Ask a Question About this Product More... |