FIVE THINGS ABOUT ME  

1. My mother had a rule that I and my six siblings had to read one nonfiction book for every fiction book. As long as I could find a book in the Childhood of Famous Americans series, I obeyed her rule (that is, if you count those books as nonfiction–they’d be considered historical fiction today!). Otherwise, I blithely ignored the rule and devoured novel after novel. I thought I didn’t like nonfiction.

Hah!

2. I love libraries. Many libraries have digitized historical documents, so I can do a surprising amount of research on my computer at home. But I also love spending time in special collections or archives. I spent nearly a week at the Bancroft Library researching Mountain Chef.

3. The best nonfiction picture books are true stories, well-told. I like to get people to tell me their own stories. Jennifer Keelan and I talked a lot to get all the details to tell her story in All the Way to the Top. I also got to talk to Bobbi Gibb before I published Girl Running. 

4. The longest I have ever lived anywhere is 7 years. I recently spent several years living in Europe and Africa, so I can grocery shop in many languages.

5. I am the fifth child of a fifth child of a fifth child. I married a fifth child. I have 5 + 1 children.

And that’s a true story.

Kathleen Rushall at Andrea Brown Literary Agency represents me.

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