Larry T. Kemp, an aspiring author with a great imagination, loved storytelling in all forms as a child. Growing up in the Greenwood area of Morgan City, Louisiana, he enjoyed watching movies of all genres, watching cartoons, and listening to stories of family and history told to him by his elders. His biggest influence as a child was his late grandmother Ethel Mae Myles, known to him as MoMo. While she could be stern, outspoken and stubborn, she was fair and told her grandson never to quit or be discouraged by anything or anybody.