Alison McGhee
| Alison McGhee | |
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| Born |
July 8, 1960 New York, United States |
| Occupation | Novelist, Professor |
| Nationality | |
| Period | 1985-present |
| Genre | Fiction, Young Adult, Children's Picture Books |
| Notable works | Shadow Baby |
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Alison McGhee (born July 8, 1960) is an American author, who has published several picture books, books for children, and adult novels. She is a New York Times bestselling author, the winner of numerous awards.
Holland Patent High School, New York
Middlebury College, Vermont
Alison McGhee's first novel, Rainlight, follows the characters left behind after the sudden and accidental death of Starr Williams. It received positive reviews and won both the Great Lakes College Association National Fiction Award and the Minnesota Book Award in 1999. McGhee's sophomore effort, Shadow Baby, is witnessed through the eyes of a young girl who befriends an old man as part of a school project. It was a Pulitzer Prize nominee. McGhee continued her adult themes with 'Was It Beautiful?.
She then began writing children's pictures. Countdown to Kindergarten and Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth, both share the same main character who begins the first story as she enters kindergarten and is in first grade by the second book. Turning her hand to young adult novels, McGhee introduced Snap and All Rivers Flow to the Sea.
In Only a Witch Can Fly McGhee focuses on poetry. In this story-poem, created in sestina form, a little girl dreams about flying on her broom.
In addition to being an award-winning author, McGhee is a professor of creative writing at Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
McGhee is single with three children.
2011 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award with co-author Kate DiCamillo and illustrator Tony Fucile (Bink and Gollie)
2003 Minnesota Book Award (Countdown to Kindergarten)
The Great Lakes College Association National Fiction Award
1999 Minnesota Book Award (Rainlight)
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