Charlotte Agell
| Charlotte Agell | |
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| Born | Charlotte Agell September 7, 1959 Norsjö, Sweden |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Notable works | Shift, Welcome Home Or Someplace Like It |
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Charlotte Agell (born 1959) is a Swedish-born American author for young adults and children who currently lives in Maine. Her second novel, Shift, was featured on the front cover of the Brunswick Times Record in October 2008.
Agell has also written and illustrated picture books for young children.
Agell was born in Norsjö, Sweden, on September 7, 1959. She is the daughter of businessman L. Christer Agell and artist Margareta "Meta" McDonald. Her great-grandfather, K. Hugo Segerborg, was director of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. Of her childhood, Agell says, "somebody always handed me art supplies." Her family moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada when she was two years old. She attended Carlyle Elementary school, learning English and hearing tales of Maine from Anglo-Canadian and Franco-Canadian friends. She became enamored with Maine, writing a story set in Halibut, Maine, a fictional town in which she imagined herself as her protagonist, a ruddy-cheeked boy catching fish for dinner.
From Canada, Agell's family moved back to Sweden, briefly, then to Hong Kong when she was eleven. She graduated from the Hong Kong International School, a Lutheran mission school that, she says, was affiliated with an open-minded ecumenical church.
As a compromise with her mother, Agell applied to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, ME for early acceptance. Instead of leaving school for a hitch-hiking stint with her boyfriend, she left Hong Kong and arrived in Maine in 1977. She felt an immediate sense of home and has lived in the state ever since. Recalling her childhood story, she wonders if, somehow, she'd "written herself into the state."
Agell graduated from Bowdoin College in 1981, where she studied art and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in education. She later earned a teaching certificate from the University of Southern Maine, and a master's degree in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1986.
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