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Author Information
Mary Casanova, author of CÉCILE, Gates of Gold:
An award-winning author, Ms. Casanova has written seven novels for middle-grade and young adult readers and one picture book. She graduated with a degree in English from the University of Minnesota where she also studied European history. For her research for CURSE OF A WINTER MOON, also set in France, she traveled to Provence with her husband, Charles. To research GATES OF GOLD, she returned to France, this time to Versailles. She lives on the Minnesota-Ontario border.
Annie Dalton, author of ISABEL, Taking Wing:
Her first book, OUT OF THE ORDINARY, was written on an old typewriter at the kitchen table while her children were at school, and she's been writing ever since. Her novels NIGHT MAZE and THE REAL TILLY BEANY were both shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, and THE AFTERDARK PRINCESS won the Nottingham Oak Children's Award. Dalton lives in Suffolk, England. She has one son, two daughters, and one grandchild.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author of NEELA, Victory Song:
Born in India, she now lives in San Francisco and Houston, where she teaches creative writing at the University of Houston. Her first book of stories, ARRANGED MARRIAGE, won an American Book Award. She writes poetry; volunteers with Maitri, a South Asian community organization that helps women in trouble; and teaches Indian culture classes to first-graders at the Chinmaya Mission. She has two children, ages 7 and 10.
Kirkpatrick Hill, author of MINUK, Ashes in the Pathway:
Raised in Fairbanks, Alaska, Ms. Hill attended Syracuse University where she graduated with majors in English and education. For the next 30 years she was an elementary school teacher in the Alaskan bush. Her three previous books, TOUGHBOY AND SISTER, WINTER CAMP, and THE YEAR OF MISS AGNES, were set in the Alaskan bush and are about Athabascan children. Ms. Hill is the mother of six children and the grandmother of five. She spends her winters in Fairbanks and her summers in the Yukon River village of Ruby, Alaska.
Laurence Yep, author of SPRING PEARL, The Last Flower:
Born and raised in San Francisco, Yep has a Ph.D. in English, has taught at the University of California-Berkley, and has been writer-in-residence at UC-Santa Barbara. He sold his first story when he was 18 and has published almost 60 books, including science fiction and children's stories. Among his many prize-winning books are DRAGONWINGS and DRAGON'S GATE, both Newbery Medal Honor books. Yep says he used his grandmother, mother, and aunts --- tough, clever, resourceful women --- as inspiration for the characters in Spring Pearl's story. Yep and his wife, author Joanne Ryder, live in Pacific Grove, California.
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