Peg Kehret Biography

Peg Kehret
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Peg Kehret Biography

Peg Kehret
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Peg Kehret (pronounced "carrot") is an award-winning author of children's books which often appear on recommended lists from the International Reading Association and the American Library Association. Kehret began her writing career by publishing plays. She attributes her interest in becoming a playwright to the "theater bug" that bit her when she was cast as a hillbilly granny in a ninth-grade production. She tried out for every subsequent school play, and if she did not get cast, she worked backstage. As an adult, she produced plays and acted in a touring company, but she soon discovered that she preferred the outlet of writing to performing. A highlight of her theater career was winning both the Forest Roberts Playwriting Award and the Pioneer Drama Service Playwriting Award for her play Spirit!

She began writing monologues from a young person's point of view so that youthful...

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