Beowulf Sheehan/Photo creditNew York-based global selling fiction writer Maria Semple, raised in Aspen, will return to her childhood stomping grounds when she speaks at the first Aspen Literary Festival. As a fifth and sixth grader, Semple delivered The Aspen Times newspapers, picking up stacks of papers from the alley behind Carl’s Pharmacy. “I had never written a line of prose in my life before I wrote my first book,” Semple said. I am just going to try to get my observations across and have a propulsive plot.”“Go Gentle’ by Maria Semple. For free tickets to panel “Maria Semple, Jade Change & Shelley Read: Charting Their Own Course” go to aspenliteraryfestival.org/speakers/maria-semple .