Shulamit Hartal was blessed with a multi-faceted creativity that expressed itself in sculpture, journalism, teaching and fiction. Born in Israel in 1937, in her early twenties she married Dov Hartal, (who had been her childhood sweetheart) and studied journalism at the Advanced School for Law and Economics in Tel Aviv, the institute that would become the University of Tel Aviv. Her journalistic skills were put to use when she worked for seven years at Israel's leading daily newspaper, Haaretz, both as a journalist - with a weekly column for the youth supplement of Haaretz on art and on handicrafts -as well as reviewing new consumer products and appliances. She also worked in the archive at Haaretz. The weekly articles on crafts for youth were collected in two volumes and became the books: "Home Boutique", "With Your Own Hands" (Karni Publications, in Hebrew)… "Finding the Grain" was Hartal's fifth book and first novel (apart from the craft books and the book on the Hartal Method, there was also a charming book for children, inspired by her grandchildren, "Curly Eyal"). The idea for Finding the Grain, (which in the original Hebrew was titled Tarnegolet Iveret, "Blind Chicken") was sparked off when Hartal literally stumbled over a pile of psychology books at the local recycling center. Later, in what was to be the last year of her life, Hartal devoted herself to this heavily auto-biographical novel. At first she worked intensively and in the final months, feverishly. The book saw publication two weeks before she herself succumbed to cancer in November 2013, at the age of 76.

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