Clare B. Dunkle

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Clare B. Dunkle
BornClare Buckalew
(1964-06-11) June 11, 1964 (age 59)
Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
Occupation
  • Author
  • librarian
NationalityAmerican
Education Trinity University (BA)
Indiana University (MLS)
Genre Fantasy
Notable works The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy
Children2

Clare B. Dunkle (born June 11, 1964) is an American children's fantasy author and librarian.

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Biography

Dunkle was born Clare Buckalew in Fort Worth, Texas. She earned a B.A. in Russian with a minor in Latin from Trinity University in San Antonio and worked in Trinity University's library after earning her Master of Library Science from Indiana University Bloomington. For seven years, she and her family lived in the Rheinland Pfalz region of Germany not far from the Roman city of Trier. Her daughters (Elena and Valerie) attended a boarding school there and read her first four books as a series of letters from home. [1]

Works

The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy

The Sky Inside Series

Other Works

Co-author

Dunkle co-wrote Elena Vanishing (2015) with her daughter, Elena Dunkle. The memoir is a true account of Elena's struggle with anorexia nervosa, a disorder that took over her life from the age of 17 all the way past college and into adulthood.

Awards

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References

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  2. "The Sky Inside". www.kirkusreviews.com. Kirkus Media LLC. 1 January 2008. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
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