... I was almost a bookworm for reading when I was a child." She is now reading "The Shepherd of the Hills" by Harold Bell Wright. "My mother enjoyed this book. That's why I bought it," she said. Her favorite book is "the Bible, of course ...

... century's most important presidents. A tale similar to one by Horatio Alger helped make it happen. The author was Harold Bell Wright and the novel - given to Reagan by his mother as a prelude to his baptism as a boy - was "That Printer of Udells ...