Karen Cushman
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Karen Cushman was born on October 4, 1941 and grew up in a working-class family in Chicago, but never put much thought into becoming a writer. Though she wrote poetry and plays as a child, Cushman didn't begin writing professionally for young adults until she was fifty. She holds an MA in both toon meer Human Behavior and Museum Studies. Cushman has always been interested in history. It was this interest that led her to her research into medieval England and its culture, which led to both Catherine, Called Birdy, a Newbery Honor Book, and The Midwife's Apprentice, her second book and winner of the prestigious Newbery Award in 1996. Both Catherine, Called Birdy and The Midwife's Apprentice have earned many awards and honors including the Gold Kite Award for Fiction from the Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, and was chosen as one of School Library Journal's Best Books of the Year. Cushman's work has also been recognized for excellence by Horn Book, Parenting Magazine, Hungry Mind Review, and the American Library Association. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Author Karen Cushman at the 2016 Texas Book Festival. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53330002
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- 1941-10-04
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- Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Vashon Island, Washington, USA
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- Stanford University (MA - Human Behavior, MA - Museum Studies)
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- novelist
adjunct professor - Relaties
- Cushman, Philip (husband)
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- John F. Kennedy University (Assistant Director - Museum Studies Department)
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- According to Karen Cushman's web site: When I was little, my Polish grandpa took me for walks through the alleys of Chicago. I would collect treasures — rubber bands and marbles, perfectly good pencils, maple leaves and robins’ eggs — and take them home to put in a box under my bed. I think that’s what being a writer is like. The treasures I collect now are bits of information fantasies memories, and imaginings, and I take them and put them in a story.
I write historical fiction, novels that may be about made up characters and events but take place in a real time or place.
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Een zwervend weesmeisje vindt werk en onderdak als hulpje van Jane de vroedvrouw. Samen met haar kat, allebei veel geplaagd, verovert zij haar plaats. Ondanks de afstandelijkheid van haar werkgeefster wil Alyce het vak goed leren.
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