Kathryn Erskine

Kathryn Erskine
Erskine in September 2013
Born	Netherlands
Alma mater	College of William & Mary
Notable awards	National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Website
www.kathyerskine.com

Kathryn Erskine is an American writer of children's literature. She won the 2010 National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the 2012 Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award for her novel, Mockingbird . ^{[1] [2]}

Life

Erskine's family traveled widely during her childhood due to her father's career. She was born in the Netherlands and has lived in South Africa, Israel, Canada, and Scotland. Erskine now^{[ when? ]} lives in Virginia with her husband, Bill. She has two children, Fiona and Gavin. She also has a dog named Maxine.

She was a lawyer for many years before writing. She presents workshops at the Writer's Center. ^[3]

Bibliography

• Quaking, Penguin, 2007, ISBN   978-0-399-24774-3
• Mockingbird , Penguin, 2010, ISBN   978-0-399-25264-8 — winner of the National Book Award ^{[1] [2]}
• The Absolute Value of Mike. Penguin. 2011. ISBN   978-0-399-25505-2.
• Seeing Red, Scholastic, 2013, ISBN   978-0545464406
• Mama Africa!: How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), ISBN   9780374303013
• The Badger Knight, Scholastic, 2014, ISBN 978-0-54546442-0

References

1. "National Book Awards – 2010". National Book Foundation (NBF). Retrieved 2012-04-16.
   (With acceptance speech by Erskine; interview, reading, and other material replicated for all five Young People's Literature authors and books.)
2. "2010 National Book Award Winner, Young People's Literature" Archived 2013-10-14 at the Wayback Machine (November 17, 2010). NBF. Retrieved 2011-10-28.
   (Acceptance speech by Erskine with some other material.)
3. "Kathryn Erskine" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine . The Writers Center.

External links

• Official website
• "Q & A with Kathryn Erskine", Publishers Weekly, Sue Corbett, April 8, 2010
• Kathryn Erskine at Library of Congress , with 4library catalog records