Amy Goldman Koss Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 7 pages of information about the life of Amy Goldman Koss.

Amy Goldman Koss Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 7 pages of information about the life of Amy Goldman Koss.
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The author of eight juvenile novels and numerous picture books, Amy Goldman Koss is known for her ability to look at the problems and adventures of middle-graders with an insightful and realistic eye. At the same time, she presents characters that hold readers' attention and linger after completion of the book. In such novels as The Trouble with Zinny Weston, How I Saved Hanukkah, The Ashwater Experiment, The Girls, Smoke Screen, Stranger in Dadland, and Stolen Words, Koss blends humor with realistic situations to sensitively convey the pain of growing up.

Koss was born in 1954 in Detroit, Michigan, and formed an early love for both writing and drawing. However, as she once commented, "I assumed that when I grew up I'd get some miserable job doing something awful and I'd only get to draw pictures and make up stories in my teeny bits of free time. My dad's...

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