![]() While Ryan and her siblings were cleaning out their mother’s house, Ryan uncovered a stash of material that would provide her book with rich detail: Her mother had kept copies of all the contest entry forms and letters of congratulations that she had received over the years, as well as the 24 notebooks she had filled with every jingle she wrote. That changed after her mother died in 1998 at 85. Holt, the Chronicle’s former book editor and critic, said Ryan had tried writing a number of versions of her memoir “but couldn’t get the voice right or the story right because she hadn’t seen the primary source material.” Sylvester,” a cartoon that ran in the San Francisco Chronicle’s Sunday Book Review from 1983 to 1999. She also teamed with artist Sylvia Mollick on “T.O. A graduate of Bowling Green State University in Ohio who moved to San Francisco in the early ‘70s, Ryan was a longtime technical writer, book editor and poet. ![]()
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