Anne Isaacs

Anne Isaacs (born March 2, 1949) is an American writer of children's and young adult literature. She may be known best as the writer of Swamp Angel, a picture book illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky and published by Dutton Children's Books in 1994; Zelinsky was a runner-up for the annual Caldecott Medal. In 2014 Swamp Angel was a runner-up (Honor Book) for the Phoenix Picture Book Award from the Children's Literature Association, which annually recognizes the best picture book that did not win a major award 20 years earlier. "Books are considered not only for the quality of their illustrations, but for the way pictures and text work together."

Isaacs was born in 1949, in Buffalo, New York, and lived there until she left for college in 1967. She attended the University of Michigan, where she received Bachelors degrees in English Literature and Environmental Education and her MS in 1975. Since then she has lived in various cities in Canada and in California. Isaacs married Samuel Koplowicz, a media producer, in 1978. She and her husband and three kids now live in Berkeley, on the San Francisco Bay. Writing fiction is her second profession as she held a series of positions in the field of environmental education until the mid-1980s.

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