Sherryl Jordan Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 9 pages of information about the life of Sherryl Jordan.

Sherryl Jordan Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 9 pages of information about the life of Sherryl Jordan.
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Authors and Artists for Young Adults on Sherryl Jordan

Award-winning New Zealand author Sherryl Jordan began her writing career with picture books, but soon moved on to novels for older readers. Her breakthrough came with Rocco, published in the United States as A Time of Darkness, and since that time she has gone on to pen many more titles for young adult and juvenile readers that have been published both in her native New Zealand and throughout the world. The recipient of a 1993 fellowship to the prestigious writing program at the University of Iowa, Jordan used her time in the United States to speak widely at schools and conferences about her books, which blend fantasy with bits of science fiction and romantic realism. "All my young adult novels have been gifts," she noted in the St. James Guide to Children's Writers. "I don't think them up. They hit me over the head when I least expect them...

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