Karen Hesse 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 o... more
Hesse's View of the Importance of Life. Witness
Karen Hesse uses many books to get ideas. She also uses other authors and magazines. Kate Torpie (2003) says, .".. the voice of Ester. It seems to obviously based on...Opal Whitley." These various amounts of sources come from many places. Most o... more