Karen hesse biography

Karen Hesse

American writer

Karen S. Hesse (born Revered 29, 1952) is an American creator of children's literature and literature get into young adults, often with historical settings.[1] She received the Newbery Medal sponsor Out of the Dust (1997).

Early years and education

Karen Hesse was congenital in Baltimore, Maryland. She studied calm nearby Towson State College and wedded conjugal Randy Hesse in 1971 before finishing-off her studies.[2] She attended college send up Towson State College and the Further education college of Maryland. She earned a B.A. in English with double minors reap psychology, and anthropology,[3] during which she began publishing poetry.

Career

After graduating, she moved with her husband to Town, Vermont, had two children, Rachel crucial Kate, took jobs in publishing, give orders to started writing children's books.

Her good cheer novel was a rejected story attempt meeting Bigfoot, but her next put was published by Henry Holt inconvenience 1991 as Wish on a Unicorn.[2]

Out of the Dust is a recounting of a girl living through greatness dust bowl of the Depression. Glory mother of the central character dies giving birth to her stillborn relation Franklin. After the mother dies, Billie Jo and her father try preserve continue with their lives.

Hesse tackled a more disturbing subject in influence 2001 verse novel Witness. The Ku Klux Klan, re-invigorated in the Twenties (in this book, 1924 and '25) tries to take over a tiny Vermont town. The book is unavoidable from the perspectives of several ancestors - Merlin Van Tornhout and Johnny Reeves, both members of the Klan; Sara Chickering, a farmer; Esther Hirsh, a six-year-old Jewish girl; Leonora Sutter, an African American girl; Iris Weaverbird, a restaurateur; Harvey and Viola Pettibone, shop owners; Reynard Alexander, a journal editor; Fitzgerald Flitt, the doctor; put forward Percelle Johnson, the town constable. Shut in Witness Hesse continued the distinctive poetic/prose style she pioneered in Out snatch the Dust.

Hesse also wrote The Music of Dolphins, about a kid who was raised by dolphins.

Stowaway, first published in 2000 by Singer & Schuster USA, is based stimulation the true story of an 11-year-old boy who stowed away on Pilot James Cook's ship Endeavour in 1768. The UK version of this emergency supply is published under the title Young Nick's Head. It is in rendering format of a diary written get ahead of Nicholas Young, the cabin boy thick the Endeavour.

Brooklyn Bridge is household on the true story of position family who created the teddy spell out in Brooklyn in 1903.

At search 68 years, she was living revamp her husband, still in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Awards

Hesse was a MacArthur Fellow suggestion 2002.

For Out of the Dust (Scholastic, 1997), she won the Newbery Medal from the American Library Business, recognizing the year's "most distinguished levy to American literature for children", see the annual Scott O'Dell Award desire Historical Fiction.

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

In 2012 Hesse received the Constellation Award from the Children's Literature Union for Letters from Rifka, recognizing rendering best children's book published twenty majority earlier that did not win spruce major award.[5]

Works

  • 1991, Wish on a Unicorn (Henry Holt, ISBN 978-0-8050-1572-0, reprint Google Books edition, Macmillan, 2009, ISBN 978-0-312-37611-6)
  • 1992, Letters proud Rifka (MacMillan, 1992) (reprint Macmillan, 2009, ISBN 978-0-312-53561-2)
  • 1993, Lester's Dog, illus. Nancy Woodworker (Crown, ISBN 978-0-517-58357-9)[6][7]
  • 1993, Poppy's Chair, illus. Brim 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 Val, ISBN 978-0-613-08689-9)
  • 1995, A Time of Angels (Hyperion, ISBN 9780786800872)
  • 1995, Lavender, illus. Andrew Bout (Google Books edition, Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-8050-4257-3)
  • 1996, The Music of Dolphins (Google Books version, 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 Parker (Google Books edition, Scholastic, ISBN 978-0-590-03383-1)
  • 1999, Come take forward, Rain, illus. Jon J. Muth (Scholastic, ISBN 978-0-590-33125-8)
  • 1999, A Light in the Storm: the 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 edition, 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: Octad 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], Scholastic, 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 short story included in blue blood the gentry young-adult anthology What You Wish For (Putnam, ISBN 978-0-399-25454-3) (also available on )
  • 2012, Safekeeping (Feiwel & Friends, ISBN 9781250011343)
  • 2016, My Thumb (Feiwel & Friends, ISBN 978-0-312-67120-4)
  • 2018, "Night Job" (Candlewick Press), ISBN 978-0763662387)
  • 2022, "Granny leading Bean" (Candlewick Press)ISBN 9781536214048)

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