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Biography
The second child and only daughter of tool and die worker Paul Burroway and his wife Alma (née Milner), Janet Burroway was raised in Phoenix, where she attended public school. (Her older brother, Stanley Burroway, a journalist, worked for the Los Angeles Times until his retirement.)   Burroway’s intelligence and gift for words were so obvious even in elementary school that one teacher began tutoring her in poetry after class. Burroway told an interviewer that she began writing poetry at the age of five, and that her earliest memories are of “the fronds of an awesomely tall palm tree and beyond that the searing blue Arizona sky.”