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Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Sharon Creech's The Wanderer. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.
Family influence. The first couple of stories which Sophie tells about Bompie were stories told by Sharon Creech’s father. Creech created the others.
Strange coincidences. Sharon Creech got the name “Bompie” from her sister-in-law, who called her grandfather by the same name. Interestingly, after her sister-in-law read the book, she told Creech that, like Bompie in The Wanderer, the name of her grandfather’s wife was Margaret, and that he also had a son named Mo. Creech claims to not have known this before writing the book.