Karen Hesse

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Biography

Name:	Karen Hesse
Birth Date:	August 29, 1952
Place of Birth:	Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Gender:	Female
Occupations:	Writer

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Biography of Karen Hesse
5,069 words, approx. 17 pages

Author Karen Hesse has garnered an impressive list of awards for her work, including a prestigious Newbery award, the Scott O'Dell Award, and two Christopher awards. In 2002 she added to those with a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" fellowship of $500,000...

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Karen Hesse Information
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Karen Hesse (1952 - ) is an American author of children's literature and literature for young adults, often with historical settings. Her novel Out of the Dust was the winner of the 1998 Newbery Medal and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction....

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Hesse's View of the Importance of Life.
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Karen Hesse believes first and foremost that life is important. She tries through her books to convince others of life's importance and that everyone cares for life in some way. In three of her books -- Witness, Phoenix Rising, and Aleutian Sparrow -- shows readers how much we need to care about life and what it offers.

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