Kathryn Erskine Explained

Kathryn Erskine
Birth Place:	Netherlands
Genre:	Young Adult novelist
Awards:	National Book Award for Young People's Literature

Kathryn Erskine is an American writer of children's literature. She won the 2010 National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the 2012 Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award for her novel, Mockingbird.

Life

Erskine's family traveled widely during her childhood due to her father's career. She was born in the Netherlands and has lived in South Africa, Israel, Canada, and Scotland. Erskine now lives in Virginia with her husband, Bill. She has two children, Fiona and Gavin. She also has a dog named Maxine.

She was a lawyer for many years before writing.She presents workshops at the Writer's Center.^[1]

Bibliography

• Quaking, Penguin, 2007,
• Mockingbird, Penguin, 2010, — winner of the National Book Award^{[2] [3]}
• Book: The Absolute Value of Mike. Penguin. 2011. 978-0-399-25505-2 .
• Seeing Red, Scholastic, 2013,
• Mama Africa!: How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR),
• The Badger Knight, Scholastic, 2014, ISBN 978-0-54546442-0

External links

• • "Q & A with Kathryn Erskine", Publishers Weekly, Sue Corbett, April 8, 2010

Notes and References

1. http://www.writer.org/kathrynerskine "Kathryn Erskine"
2. https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2010 "National Book Awards – 2010"
3. http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2010_ypl_erskine.html "2010 National Book Award Winner, Young People's Literature"