Kathryn Erskine
Kathryn Erskine | |
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Born | Netherlands |
Alma mater | College of William & Mary |
Genre | Young Adult novelist |
Notable awards | National Book Award for Young People's Literature |
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Kathryn Erskine is a Dutch-born American writer of children's literature. She won the 2010 National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the 2012 Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award for her novel, Mockingbird.[1][2]
Life[]
She was born in the Netherlands and has lived in South Africa, Israel, Canada, and Scotland. Erskine now[when?] lives in Virginia with her husband, Bill two children, Fiona and Gavin and dog, Maxine.
She was a lawyer for many years before writing. She presents workshops at the Writer's Center.[3]
Bibliography[]
- Quaking, Penguin, 2007, ISBN 978-0-399-24774-3
- Mockingbird, Penguin, 2010, ISBN 978-0-399-25264-8 — winner of the National Book Award[1][2]
- The Absolute Value of Mike. Penguin. 2011. ISBN 978-0-399-25505-2.
- "Seeing Red", Scholastic, 2013, ISBN 978-0545464406
- "Mama Africa!: How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song", Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), ISBN 9780374303013
She has 2 children and 1dog and lives with her husband
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b
"National Book Awards – 2010". National Book Foundation (NBF). Retrieved 2012-04-16.
(With acceptance speech by Erskine; interview, reading, and other material replicated for all five Young People's Literature authors and books.) - ^ Jump up to: a b
"2010 National Book Award Winner, Young People's Literature" (November 17, 2010). NBF. Retrieved 2011-10-28.
(Acceptance speech by Erskine with some other material.) - ^ "Kathryn Erskine". The Writers Center.
External links[]
- Official website
- "Q & A with Kathryn Erskine", Publishers Weekly, Sue Corbett, April 8, 2010
- Kathryn Erskine at Library of Congress Authorities, with 4 catalog records
Categories:
- American children's writers
- National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners
- College of William & Mary alumni
- Dutch emigrants to the United States
- Living people