O.t nelson author information biography
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The Girl Who Owned a City
1975 novel
The Girl Who Owned a City is the only published novel by O. T. Nelson, first published in 1975. This book, sometimes taught in schools, is considered to be best suited for those between the ages of 12 and 15.[1] A graphic novel adaptation by Dan Jolley with art by Joëlle Jones and Jenn Manley Lee was published in 2012.[2]
Plot
[edit]A deadly virus has swept the world, killing off everyone over the age of twelve in the span of a month or so.[3] In the town of Glen Ellyn, Illinois, outside of Chicago, ten-year-old Lisa Nelson and her younger brother Todd Nelson are surviving, like all the children in the story, by looting abandoned houses and shops. Although there are abandoned cars in every driveway and lining every street, Lisa is the first child to think of driving one. She is also the first to think of raiding a farm, and the first to look at the dwindling supplies in stores and deduce that groceries come from warehouses. She finds a supermarket warehouse and raids it, enlisting the help of Craig Bergman, a neighbor boy two years older than her, but makes clear to him and all the other children in her neighborhood that the entire warehouse and all its contents are her exclusive property, not to be
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O.T. Nelson was the founder of the largest and most successful house painting business in America and he was a devout proponent of Libertarian and Objectivist principles. He also believed that teen fiction was the best way to spread them. The Girl Who Owned a City was his only book and while I read it over and over as a kid because it was basically an end-times version of survival classic, My Side of the Mountain, it's also Randian propaganda.
Lisa, named after Nelson's own daughter, recovers from the Chidester Gang's raid by reasoning that the looted nearby grocery stores must have gotten their food from somewhere and she drives until she discovers a grocery warehouse with plenty of food and supplies. She tells the kids on her block she’ll give them some of it, but it’s HER property and she’ll dole it out the way she wants. In a move designed to get Objectivist readers pumping their fists in the air, she assures the starving kids on her block that she will burn the warehouse to the ground rather than share anything against her will.
She organizes a militia, and demands that even the five-year-olds learn to rig booby traps and throw Molotov cocktails if they want to eat, and when the Chidester gang comes back to offer Lisa a food-for-protection deal, she tells Tom Loga