“One thing I'm interested in is what
shapes us: The people? The place where we live? It's both of those
and more. That's what I keep coming back to.” – Sharon
Creech
Born in Ohio on July 29, 1945 Creech
is the first American to win both the Carnegie Medal and the Newbery Medal for the
same book, her amazing young adult book Walk Two Moons. Those
two major awards are among dozens Creech has earned for her writing, noting in
her understated fashion: “There seemed to be an audience out there who wanted
to read what I wanted to write.”
While her writing career has primarily
been aimed at the young adult market, adults have been a big audience for her
works, too. She embeds serious topics
into her stories, including themes of independence, trust, childhood,
adulthood, and death, but often softening the blow with humor.
Her writing advice is simple: “Read
a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with
millions of images.”
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