Martha Whitmore Hickman

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your website mentioned an essay on the loss of your Dad. I recently lost my Dad and it is just so hard. He lived a long and wonderful and happy life...we all adored him. So, I am curious to read anything about the loss of a father...thanks so much...Pattie Morrison pmorrison57@comcast.net

dear Martha--My darling daughter Stephanie, a graduate of Brandeis U committed suicide three years ago this Thanksgiving after being on medication since 1992 for Depression. It's a long story...I, myself retired from a community college two weeks ago My husband and I and our other two daughters have read many books this past three years on grief. Yours has been especially comnforting. It's our daily reading this past year and I have given a few copies to other grieving parents. Thank you. My daughter left many poems - her degrees were in English and American Lit as is mine...as well as short stories. Also, I have kept journals of her illness over the past 14 years. So far I have only written many 'slices of life' pieces..I'm hoping that in the New Year I will be able to bring myself to put together our story... it's been most helpful reading your Web site, Biography etc., Joan White

Martha- I love this website- full of information about you, your family and your books! Isn't technology wonderful! Nancy Ware

I have just read 'such good people' after finding it in a second hand shop and want you to know it touched me. I'm so sorry you lost your daughter and all the things that her life lived longer would have brought to you. Thank you for writing about her and your life, I wish you joy and peace, and much success with such eloquent and thoughtful writing. Annie, Australia Annie, Australia

Hi Martha: I would like to contact you. Please advise an address. Thank you. Diana Stephenson


Martha, love your new website! EEPs Creeps and The Reason I haven't finished.... bring back such fun memories! Love you too, Margaret Howell

Awesome website! Crisp, accessible, inviting. It helps, of course, that the subject of the website is a bit awesome herself.

Well Done...I like the insights into your work! karen nashville, tn

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Martha, we lost our beautiful 17 year old son at christmas 2000 and while on a visit to USA in sept 2001 we found your " healing after loss" and we just want to say thank you for helping us to get thru each day, god bless you and your family. Rodger and Imelda Mc Mahon, Ireland

Dear Martha, My sister gave me "Healing After Loss" after the sudden death of my 3yr old son. I thank you for this because it is helping me to get through the most difficult time of my life. Jacquelyn B, CA

I had the privilege of reading Such Good People- it is beautifully written, and Martha Hickman captures the range of human emotion in such a real and genuine way. A beautiful book. Nancy Ware

Wonderful thoughtful books for all ages. CAS, Nashville.

Your writing is captivating, witty, beautiful, and so human. Martha, you have a gift for genuinely sensing the experiences of child or adult, and finding just the right words. ... Phyllis Jean, Nashville

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Have you written for teenagers? Pull from your own tribe, although now grown!

Thanks for the suggestion. But, even though that age is much closer, more recent in my experience, than 5,6,7-yr olds, I don't feel I know as well who they are-- I think because I was sick and in bed for a long time during those years and had a lot of time to ruminate. This is not uncommon for writers. De Goncourt has written:"Sickness sensitizes a person for observation, like a photographic plate."