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| Occupation | Author of children's books |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Chris Barton |
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Jennifer Ziegler is an American writer and faculty member at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Ziegler was raised in Texas and is of Mexican-American heritage. [1] She received a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Bachelor of Journalism in magazine journalism from the University of Texas. [2] She presently serves as the faculty co-chair of Vermont College of Fine Arts's Master of Fine Arts program in Writing for Children and Young Adults. [2]
Ziegler currently lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, Chris Barton. [3] [4] Together, they have four adult children. [5]
The Brewster Triplets series is published by Scholastic Inc.
The Putney School is an independent high school in Putney, Vermont. The school was founded in 1935 by Carmelita Hinton on the principles of the Progressive Education movement and the teachings of its principal exponent, John Dewey. It is a co-educational, college-preparatory boarding school, with a day-student component, 12 miles (19 km) outside Brattleboro, Vermont. Danny O'Brien became head of school in 2022. The school enrolls approximately 225 students on a 500 acres (2.0 km2) hilltop campus with classrooms, dormitories, and a dairy farm on which its students work before graduating.
Steve Brodner is a satirical illustrator and caricaturist working for publications in the US since the 1970s. He is accepted in the fields of journalism and the graphic arts as a master of the editorial idiom. Currently a regular contributor to GQ, The Nation, Newsweek, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times, Brodner's art journalism has appeared in major magazines and newspapers in the United States, such as Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Esquire, Time, Playboy, Mother Jones, Harper's, and The Atlantic. His work, first widely seen exposing and attacking Reagan Era scandals, is credited with helping spearhead the 1980s revival of pointed and entertaining graphic commentary in the US. He is currently working on a book about the presidents of the United States.
John Lescroart is a New York Times bestselling author known for his series of legal and crime thriller novels featuring the characters Dismas Hardy, Abe Glitsky, and Wyatt Hunt. His novels have sold more than 10 million copies, have been translated into 22 languages in more than 75 countries, and 18 of his books have been on the New York Times bestseller list.
Ruth Stone was an American poet.
Town School for Boys, located in San Francisco, California, is an independent day school for boys from kindergarten through the eighth grade.
Martha Elizabeth "Libba" Bray is an American writer of young adult novels including the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, Going Bovine, and The Diviners.
Adam Selzer is an American author, originally of young, gay adults and middle grade novels, though his work after 2011 has primarily been adult nonfiction.
Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) is a private graduate-level art school in Montpelier, Vermont. It offers Master's degrees in a low-residency format. Its faculty includes Pulitzer Prize finalists, National Book Award winners, Newbery Medal honorees, Guggenheim Fellowship and Fulbright Program fellows, and Ford Foundation grant recipients. The literary magazine Hunger Mountain is operated by VCFA writing faculty and students.
Marie Harriet Brenner is an American author, investigative journalist and writer-at-large for Vanity Fair. She has also written for New York, The New Yorker and the Boston Herald and has taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Her 1996 Vanity Fair article on tobacco insider Jeffrey Wigand, "The Man Who Knew Too Much", inspired the 1999 movie The Insider, starring Russell Crowe and Al Pacino. Her February 1997 Vanity Fair article "American Tragedy: The Ballad of Richard Jewell" partially inspired the 2019 film Richard Jewell directed by Clint Eastwood.
Sydney Lea is an American poet, novelist, essayist, editor, and professor. He was the founding editor of the New England Review and was the Poet Laureate of Vermont from 2011 to 2015. Lea's writings focus the outdoors, woods, and rural life New England and "the mysteries and teachings of the natural world."
Kathi Appelt is an American author of more than forty books for children and young adults. She won the annual PEN USA award for Children's Literature recognizing The Underneath (2008).
Amy N. Stewart is an American author best known for books on horticulture and the natural world.
Amanda McRaney Jenkins is an American writer of young adult fiction. Her novels have received considerable recognition, including the Delacorte Prize for Breaking Boxes, and a Printz Honor for Repossessed.
Kara Thomas, is an American author of novels for young adults and television writer best known for her 2018 novel The Cheerleaders.
Aaron Starmer is an American author of young adult fiction novels, known for The Riverman Trilogy and Spontaneous. As of June 2016, he was working on another novel, entitled Meme. In 2016, it was reported that Awesomeness Films had bought the rights to adapt Spontaneous into a movie of the same name, which was released in 2020. He has also co-authored a book about camping along with Catharine Wells and Timothy Starmer. Also in 2016, Starmer appeared at the annual Texas Book Festival.
Kiersten White is an American author of fiction for children, young adults, and adults. Her first book, Paranormalcy, was published by HarperCollins in 2009.
Karen M. McManus is an American author of young adult fiction. She is most known for her first novel, One of Us Is Lying, which spent more than five years on The New York Times Best Seller list, as well as its sequels One of Us Is Next and One of Us Is Back, and the stand-alone novel Two Can Keep a Secret.
Tracey Baptiste is a children's horror author from the Caribbean who uses folk stories in her novels.
Chris Barton is an American author of children's books. His books has been included on numerous lists citing the best children's books of the year.
Frank DiPalermo is an American actor, playwright and poet known for the plays Public Transit, Private Parts (1996), Something in Common (1995), and Common Human Being (1990). Two of DiPalermo's poems were finalists for the Steve Kowit Poetry Prize and he earned several ensemble awards for We All Die Alone (2021).
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