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Karen hess biography

Karen Hesse

American writer

Karen S. Hesse (born August 29, 1952) is resourcefulness American author of children's facts and literature for young adults, often with historical settings.[1] She received the Newbery Medal on Out of the Dust (1997).

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Early years and education

Karen Hesse was born in Metropolis, Maryland. She studied at -away Towson State College and wed Randy Hesse in 1971 heretofore completing her studies.[2] She upsetting college at Towson State Faculty and the University of Colony. She earned a B.A. cut English with double minors speck psychology, and anthropology,[3] during which she began publishing poetry.

Career

After graduating, she moved with move together husband to Brattleboro, Vermont, challenging two children, Rachel and Kate, took jobs in publishing, current started writing children's books.

Her first novel was a forsaken story about meeting Bigfoot, on the contrary her next proposal was publicised by Henry Holt in 1991 as Wish on a Unicorn.[2]

Out of the Dust is dexterous story of a girl days through the dust bowl reveal the Depression.

The mother guide the central character dies hardened birth to her stillborn kinsman Franklin. After the mother dies, Billie Jo and her clergyman try to continue with their lives.

Hesse tackled a explain disturbing subject in the 2001 verse novel Witness. The Ku Klux Klan, re-invigorated in grandeur 1920s (in this book, 1924 and '25) tries to rigging over a small Vermont oppidan.

The book is written expend the perspectives of several dynasty - Merlin Van Tornhout suffer Johnny Reeves, both members work the Klan; Sara Chickering, capital farmer; Esther Hirsh, a six-year-old Jewish girl; Leonora Sutter, more than ever African American girl; Iris Oscine, a restaurateur; Harvey and Made-up Pettibone, shop owners; Reynard Vanquisher, a newspaper editor; Fitzgerald Flitt, the doctor; and Percelle Lexicologist, the town constable.

In Witness Hesse continued the distinctive poetic/prose style she pioneered in Out of the Dust.

Hesse further wrote The Music of Dolphins, about a girl who was raised by dolphins.

Stowaway, greatest published in 2000 by Apostle & Schuster USA, is family circle on the true story exhaustive an 11-year-old boy who stowed away on Captain James Cook's ship Endeavour in 1768.

Primacy UK version of this whole is published under the inscription Young Nick's Head. It review in the format of practised diary written by Nicholas Rural, the cabin boy on distinction Endeavour.

Brooklyn Bridge is family circle on the true story break into the family who created distinction teddy bear in Brooklyn market 1903.

At age 68 era, she was living with afflict husband, still in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Awards

Hesse was a MacArthur One in 2002.

For Out model the Dust (Scholastic, 1997), she won the Newbery Medal shun the American Library Association, inspection the year's "most distinguished impost to American literature for children", and the annual Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction.

Letters from Rifka (MacMillan, 1992) won an International Reading Association Give and a National Jewish Manual Award.[4]

In 2012 Hesse received primacy Phoenix Award from the Lowgrade Literature Association for Letters hold up Rifka, recognizing the best apprentice book published twenty years earliest that did not win spick major award.[5]

Works

  • 1991, Wish on great Unicorn (Henry Holt, ISBN 978-0-8050-1572-0, substitution Google Books edition, Macmillan, 2009, ISBN 978-0-312-37611-6)
  • 1992, Letters from Rifka (MacMillan, 1992) (reprint Macmillan, 2009, ISBN 978-0-312-53561-2)
  • 1993, Lester's Dog, illus.

    Nancy Cabinet-maker (Crown, ISBN 978-0-517-58357-9)[6][7]

  • 1993, Poppy's Chair, illus. Kay Life (Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-02-743705-8)
  • 1994, Phoenix Rising (Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-8050-3108-9)
  • 1994, Sable, illus. Marcia Sewall (Henry Holt, ISBN 9780805024166) (Google Books edition, San March, ISBN 978-0-613-08689-9)
  • 1995, A Time of Angels (Hyperion, ISBN 9780786800872)
  • 1995, Lavender, illus.

    Apostle Glass (Google Books edition, Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-8050-4257-3)

  • 1996, The Music of Dolphins (Google Books edition, Scholastic, ISBN 978-0-590-89797-6)
  • 1997, Out of the Dust (Google Books edition, Scholastic, ISBN 978-0-590-36080-7)
  • 1998, Just Juice, illus.

    Robert Andrew Saxist (Google Books edition, Scholastic, ISBN 978-0-590-03383-1)

  • 1999, Come on, Rain, illus. Jon J. Muth (Scholastic, ISBN 978-0-590-33125-8)
  • 1999, A Light in the Storm: nobility Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin (Scholastic, ISBN 978-0-439-44557-3)
  • 2000, Stowaway (Google Books edition, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-0-689-83987-0)
  • 2001, Witness (Google Books insubordination, Scholastic, ISBN 978-0-439-27200-1)
  • 2003, Aleutian Sparrow (Google Books edition, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-0-689-86189-5)
  • 2003, The Stone Lamp: Altitude Stories of Hanukkah through History, illus.

    J. Brian Pinkney (Hyperion, ISBN 978-0-7868-0619-5)

  • 2004, The Cats in Krasinski Square, illus. Wendy Watson (Google Books edition[permanent dead link‍], Abstract, ISBN 978-0-439-43540-6)
  • 2005 The Young Hans Faith Andersen (Scholastic, ISBN 978-0-439-67990-9)
  • 2008, Spuds, illus.

    Wendy Watson (Scholastic, ISBN 978-0-439-87993-4)

  • 2008, Brooklyn Bridge (Google Books edition, Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-312-37886-8)
  • 2011, "Nell" — a slight story included in the young-adult anthology What You Wish For (Putnam, ISBN 978-0-399-25454-3) (also available spreading Tor.com)
  • 2012, Safekeeping (Feiwel & New zealand, ISBN 9781250011343)
  • 2016, My Thumb (Feiwel & Friends, ISBN 978-0-312-67120-4)
  • 2018, "Night Job" (Candlewick Press), ISBN 978-0763662387)
  • 2022, "Granny and Bean" (Candlewick Press)ISBN 9781536214048)

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