E.A. (Elizabeth Anne) Hanks’s literary debut has been a long time coming. After a decade of work, her book, The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road, finally hit the shelves last week. The story is a personal one, weaving between a road trip she took as a teenager with her mother, Susan Dillingham, and one she took alone as an adult, in which she retraced that original journey along Interstate 10. Over months of traveling, she reflects on the alleged abuse she endured from Dillingham and her complicated relationship with her father, the actor Tom Hanks.
E. A. Hanks grew up in Sacramento surrounded by books. Her Anglophile mother loved traditional English literature, filling her house with “huge stacks of Shakespeare and Yeats.”
