Terra Dankowski writes: “Author Angeline Boulley is living proof that it’s never too late to write your own story. Boulley, who is 56, first got the idea for her young adult novel Firekeeper’s Daughter (Henry Holt and Co., 2021), about an 18-year-old Ojibwe girl who helps an undercover FBI investigation, when she was a senior in high school. But she didn’t start writing her debut until she was 44—and the book wasn’t published until a decade after that. ‘I may not have been writing for all of those years between 18 and 44, but I was creating, I was working [on the] puzzle pieces,’ she told attendees of the American Library Association’s virtual LibLearnX conference on January 22.”