Sharon creech author biography john
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Creech, Sharon –
(Sharon Rigg)
Personal
Born July 29, , monitor South Geometrician, OH; girl of Ann and Arvel Creech; wedded (divorced); united Lyle D. Rigg (a school headmaster), ; children: Rob, Karin. Education: Hiram College, B.A.; George Artisan University, M.A.
Addresses
Home—The Pennington Kindergarten, W. Colony Ave., Pennington, NJ Agent—Amy Berkower, Writers House, 21 W. Xxvi St., Newfound York, Invention
Career
Affiliated finetune Federal Ephemeral Project Depository, Fairfax, VA; Congressional Quarterly, Washington, DC, editorial assistant; The Dweller School change into Switzerland (TASIS), Surrey, England, teacher assess American roost British belleslettres in England American Nursery school, –82, –94, teacher wait American contemporary British information in Lugano, Switzerland, –
Awards, Honors
Billee Philologue Denny 1 Award, Attorney College (IL), , mean "Cleansing"; Leading Books naming, School Assemblage Journal, , Notable Lowranking Book appointment, American Aggregation Association (ALA), Children's Finished Award (England), U.K. Conjure Association Give, and Newbery Medal, ALA, all , W.H. Metalworker Award, , and Verdant Readers Give, Virginia Offer Reading Business, Heartland Accord, Sequoia Accord, and Literaturhaus award (Austria), all , all backer Walk Cardinal Moons; Whitbread Award shortlist, , nurse Chasing Redbi
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About Sharon
I was born in South Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, and grew up there with my noisy and rowdy family: my parents (Ann and Arvel), my sister (Sandy), and my three brothers (Dennis, Doug, and Tom).
For a fictional view of what it was like growing up in my family, see Absolutely Normal Chaos. (In that book, the brothers even have the same names as my own brothers.) Our house was not only full of us Creeches, but also full of friends and visiting relatives.
In the summer, we usually took a trip, all of us piled in a car and heading out to Wisconsin or Michigan or, once, to Idaho. We must have been a very noisy bunch, and I’m not sure how our parents put up with being cooped up with us in the car for those trips. The five-day trip out to Idaho when I was twelve had a powerful effect on me: what a huge and amazing country! I had no idea then that thirty-some years later, I would recreate that trip in a book called Walk Two Moons.
Sharon Creech holding the medal
One other place we often visited was Quincy, Kentucky, where my cousins lived (and still live) on a beautiful farm, with hills and trees and swimming hole and barn and hayloft. We were outside running in those hills all day long, and at night we’d gather on the porch where more stories would
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Sharon Creech facts for kids
Sharon Creech (born July 29, ) is an American writer of children's novels. She was the first American winner of the Carnegie Medal for British children's books and the first person to win both the American Newbery Medal and the British Carnegie.
Biography
Sharon Creech was born in South Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, where she grew up with her parents (Ann and Arvel), one sister (Sandy), and three brothers (Dennis, Doug and Tom). She would often visit her cousins in Quincy, Lewis County, Kentucky, which has found its way into many of her books as the fictional Bybanks, Kentucky. Bybanks appears in Walk Two Moons, Chasing Redbird, and Bloomability, and there is an allusion to it in The Wanderer.
At college in the U.S. she became intrigued by story-telling after taking literature and writing courses, and she later became a teacher of secondary school English and Writing in England and Switzerland. Her first children's novel, Absolutely Normal Chaos, was published only in the U.K., by Macmillan Children's Books in Called "comedy about contemporary teen life" by Kirkus Reviews, it featured a year-old girl's "complete and unabridged journal for English class". Her first book published in the U.S. was Walk Two Moons (), which wo