Daria Dontsova herself learned to read at the age of four, and wrote her first story at the age of seven and took it to the writer Valentin Kataev, her father’s closest friend. Daria still keeps the notebook with the text that Kataev corrected. But despite such an early desire to write stories, Daria’s first book was published when Dontsova was forty-five years old. She considers herself a very happy person, because happiness is not just one global event, happiness is with us every day. It is in your child's smile, in a good book, in the people who surround you. Happiness is within a person, in the ability to understand that he is happy every day.