Karen Cushman

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Biography

Name:	Karen Cushman
Birth Date:	April 10, 1941
Place of Birth:	Chicago, Illinois
Nationality:	American
Gender:	Female

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Biography of Karen Cushman
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"I'm a late bloomer," Karen Cushman told Amy Umland Love of Publishers Weekly. "It takes some time, but I always bloom." The Newbery Award-winning author of novels for young people was alluding to the fact that she was fifty-three when her first book...

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Karen Cushman Information
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Karen Cushman (born October 4, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American writer of historical fiction. Her 1995 novel The Midwife's Apprentice won the Newbery Medal for children's literature, and her 1994 novel Catherine, Called Birdy won a Newbery...

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Publishers Weekly

A talk with Karen Cushman. (author of children's books)(Interview)
08/26/1996: 982 words, approx. 3 pages

Cushman's latest book 'The Ballad of Lucy Whipple' was inspired by the anger the author felt when learning that women were not given any recognition in the California Gold Rush. She found that era more difficult to research than the Middle Ages, which were...

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Cushman, Karen. The loud silence of Francine Green.(Young adult review)(Book review)
07/01/2006: 338 words, approx. 1 pages

CUSHMAN, Karen. The loud silence of Francine Green. Houghton Mifflin, Clarion. 228p. bibliog. c2006.0-618-50455-9. $16.00. J * The past that Cushman (Newbery Medal winner for The Midwife's Apprentice) recreates in this work of historical fiction is much more recent than her medieval...

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