Sharon Creech
Overview
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novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
ist of children's fiction
Children's literature
Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...
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Sharon Creech was born in South Euclid, Ohio
South Euclid, Ohio
South Euclid is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. It is an inner-ring suburb of Cleveland.-Geography:Acting almost as a central point for the east side of Cleveland, South Euclid is bordered by Cleveland, Cleveland Heights, University Heights, Beachwood, Lyndhurst, Richmond Heights,...
, a suburb of Cleveland, where she grew up with her parents (Ann and Arvel), one sister (Sandy), and three brothers (Dennis, Doug and Tom). She often used to visit her cousins in Quincy, Kentucky, which has found its way into many of her books - transformed into Bybanks, Kentucky. Bybanks appears in Walk Two Moons
Walk Two Moons
Walk Two Moons is a novel written by Sharon Creech and published in 1994. It won the 1995 Newbery Medal. It was originally intended as a follow-up to Creech's previous novel Absolutely Normal Chaos, however, the idea was changed after Creech began writing.-Plot summary:The novel is narrated by a 13...
, “Chasing Redbird
Chasing Redbird
Chasing Redbird is a book by Sharon Creech published in 1997, which is somewhat of a companion to the 1995 Newbery Medal-winning Walk Two Moons. The book centres around Zinnia Taylor, a character who is quiet, as well as outrageous. Zinny sometimes mentions her friend Sal, which may be a reference...
” and “Bloomability
Bloomability
Bloomability is a book written by Sharon Creech about a young girl named Domenica Santolina Doone who lives with her semi-nomadic family in the modern day United States of America. She is given the opportunity to attend a boarding school in Lugano, Switzerland, where the majority of the storyline...
”. Bybanks also makes a brief appearance (by reference, but not by name) in “The Wanderer”.
At college she became intrigued by story-telling after taking literature and writing courses, and later became a teacher of High School English and Writing in England and Switzerland.
She is married to Lyle Rigg, a headmaster in New Jersey, and has two grown children, Rob and Karin.
Although initially writing adult novels, since penning Absolutely Normal Chaos
Absolutely Normal Chaos
Absolutely Normal Chaos is a novel for older children and young adults published in 1990 by the Newbery Medal-winning Sharon Creech. It is written in journal format and can be classed as a bildungsroman.-Plot:...
, published in 1990, she has focused on writing mainly about young people.
