Wendy Corsi Staub | |
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Born | Dunkirk, New York, U.S. | October 29, 1964
Pen name | Wendy Brody Wendy Markham Wendy Morgan |
Occupation | Writer |
Alma mater | State University of New York at Fredonia |
Genre | Young adult fiction |
Notable awards | RITA Award (1994) |
Spouse | Mark J. Staub (m. 1991) |
Children | 2 |
Website | |
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Wendy Corsi Staub (born October 29, 1964) is an American writer of suspense novels and young adult fiction. [1] She has written under her own name as well as Wendy Brody, Wendy Markham, and Wendy Morgan.
Staub was born in Dunkirk, New York on October 29, 1964. She enjoyed reading as a child, serving on her student newspaper and yearbooks and publishing poetry in Seventeen. [2] After graduating from State University of New York at Fredonia, Staub joined the publishing industry. [3]
Staub has won various awards during her career. Summer Lightning won a Romance Writers of America Rita Award in 1994. [4]
Staub won the Romance Writers of America-NYC Golden Apple Award for lifetime achievement in 2007. [5] She has won several Washington Irving Book Awards from the Westchester Library Association, including one for Nightwatcher in 2012. [6] [2]
Her book Live to Tell received a starred review from Publishers Weekly . [7]
Blue Moon was nominated for a Mary Higgins Clark award. [8] [9]
Hello, It's Me was adapted into a television movie starring Kellie Martin. [10]
She married Mark J. Staub in 1991. She has two sons, Morgan and Brody. [11] [2]
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