| Clare B. Dunkle | |
| Birth Name: | Clare Buckalew |
| Birth Date: | 11 June 1964 |
| Birth Place: | Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. |
| Education: | Trinity University (BA) Indiana University (MLS) |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
| Notable Works: | The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy |
| Children: | 2 |
Clare B. Dunkle (born June 11, 1964) is an American children's fantasy author and librarian.
Dunkle was born Clare Buckalew in Fort Worth, Texas. She earned a B.A. in Russian with a minor in Latin from Trinity University in San Antonio and worked in Trinity University's library after earning her Master of Library Science from Indiana University Bloomington. For seven years, she and her family lived in the Rheinland Pfalz region of Germany not far from the Roman city of Trier. Her daughters (Elena and Valerie) attended a boarding school there and read her first four books as a series of letters from home.[1]
The Sky Inside Series
Other Works
Dunkle co-wrote Elena Vanishing (2015) with her daughter, Elena Dunkle. The memoir is a true account of Elena's struggle with anorexia nervosa, a disorder that took over her life from the age of 17 all the way past college and into adulthood.