Amy MacDonald is an American author of children's books. Her works include Little Beaver and the Echo, which has been translated into 28 languages around the world, and Rachel Fister's Blister. Her first book, a satire

Satire

Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...

 of Jill Krementz

Jill Krementz

Jill Krementz is a photographer and author. She has published some 31 books, mostly of photography and children's books....

's children's books, was A Very Young Housewife.

Amy MacDonald was born 1951 in Beverly

Beverly, Massachusetts

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, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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. She enjoyed reading books and writing satirical stories during her childhood. Amy MacDonald graduated from high school at Pingree School

Pingree School

Pingree School is a coeducational, independent secondary day school located in South Hamilton, Massachusetts serving the geographic area north and east of Boston...

 (1969), South Hamilton, Massachusetts and she graduated from college at the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

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 (1973). She married Thomas Urquhart in 1976. Amy MacDonald went to France to study journalism

Journalism

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 6 years after marrying her husband and moved to England and had children.

A freelance journalist, she has written for the New Yorker

The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...

, the Times

Times

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, and many publications, as well as co-producing a documentary film

Documentary film

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, "On This Island", shown on PBS's Independent Lens series. She teaches writing to schoolchildren around the world as well as working as a teaching artist for the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, D. C. She now lives in Maine

Maine

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with her husband and three children.

External links

• cbmadvisors.com Children's Book Manuscript Advisors - Advisors - Amy MacDonald