Eve Bunting
| Eve Bunting | |
|---|---|
| Born | Anne Evelyn Bolton December 19, 1928 Maghera, Northern Ireland, UK |
| Pen name | Eve Bunting, A. E. Bunting, Evelyn Bolton |
| Occupation | Children's author, novelist, freelance writer, college instructor |
| Education |
Methodist College Belfast Queen's University Belfast |
| Period | 1972–present |
| Genre | Young adult fiction, science fiction, historical fiction, children's non-fiction |
| Notable awards |
Golden Kite Award (1976) Edgar Award (1993) Regina Medal (1997) |
Anne Evelyn Bunting (née Bolton) (born December 19, 1928), also known as Eve Bunting, is a Northern Ireland-born American writer of more than 250 books. Her work covers a broad array of subjects and includes fiction and non-fiction books. Her novels are primarily aimed at children and young adults, but she has also written the text for picture books. While many of her books are set in Northern Ireland, where she grew up, her topics and settings range from Thanksgiving to riots in Los Angeles. Bunting's first book, The Two Giants, was published in 1971. Due to the popularity of her books with children, she has been listed as one of the Educational Paperback Association's top 100 authors.
Anne Evelyn Bunting was born in Maghera to Sloan Edmund Bolton, a postmaster, and Mary (née Canning) Bolton, a homemaker. She married business executive Edward Davidson Bunting, whom she met in college, on March 26, 1950, and has three children: Christine, Sloan, and Glenn. She was educated in Belfast, Northern Ireland, attending Methodist College in the early 1940s and graduating in 1945; she then attended Queen's University, where she met her husband. After marrying, the couple moved to Scotland and started their family.
In 1958, Bunting immigrated to the United States with her husband and three children, later attending Pasadena City College in 1959. Bunting then enrolled in a community college writing course. She felt the desire to write about her heritage. Bunting's first published story, The Two Giants (1971), focused an Irish folktale about Finn McCool who out smarted Culcullan, a terrible Scottish giant. The first published work gave Bunting confidence and passion to pursue a writing career.
Bunting has taught writing classes at the University of California, Los Angeles and at various writer's conferences. She is a member of International PEN and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She continues to write at her home in Pasadena, California, and has six grandchildren.
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