Bonnie Shimko
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Biography
After thirty-three years of teaching second grade, Bonnie Shimko retired and began writing http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/bonnieshimko/. Her first novel, Letters in the Attic, won a Lambda Literary AwardLambda Literary Award
Lambda Literary Awards are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes. Categories include Humor, Romance and Biography. To qualify, a book must have been published in the United States in the year current to the award...
for children's/ young adult fiction in 2002. Shimko lives in Plattsburgh
Plattsburgh (city), New York
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, New York
New York
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http://www.harcourtbooks.com/authIllustrator/author.asp?id=22972&fn=Bonnie&ln=Shimko.
Works
- Letters in the Attic (2002)
- Kat's Promise (2006)
- The Private Thoughts of Amelia E. Rye (2010)