Jeanne Birdsall

Jeanne Birdsall (1951-cite web|url= http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2005-12-26-birdsall_x.htm|title=Birdsall's Secret: Listening Like A Kid|accessdate=2006-09-07|year=2005|publisher=USA Today|language=English] ) is an American author awarded with the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2005 for her debut novel "".cite web|url=http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2005_ypl_birdsall.html|title=2005 National Book Awards Winner Young People's Literature|accessdate=2006-09-12|year=2005|publisher=National Book Foundation|language=English] She was raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia, and, while she decided to become a writer at age ten, she didn't start until she was 41. She worked on other jobs in between, most notably as a photographer, and some of her work has been displayed in galleries around the world. Birdsall currently lives in a house that is "old and comfortable, full of unruly animals, and surrounded by gardens" in Northampton, Massachusetts, which is coincidentally the town that Eric Carle, a more famous author and illustrator, lives.cite web | url=http://www.jeannebirdsall.com/Jeanne/index.html | title=About Jeanne | publisher=Jeanne Birdsall | date=2005 | accessdate=2007-07-11 | language=English ]

Literary works

Birdsall's first book "" won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Birdsall's second book "The Penderwicks on Gardam Street," published in April 2008, is the second of a planned five Penderwick sisters book collection [Birdsall's site " [About the Penderwicks] http://jeannebirdsall.com/about/index.html] .

Bibliography

*2005 ""
*2008 "The Penderwicks on Gardam Street"

External links

* [http://jeannebirdsall.com/ Birdsall's Website]

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