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Nora Raleigh Baskin
Birth Name:Nora Raleigh
Birth Date:May 18, 1961
Alma Mater:State University of New York at Purchase
Birth Place:New York City, US
Nationality:American
Genre:Young adult, middle grade and children's realistic fiction
Notableworks:What Every Girl (Except Me) Knows, Anything but Typical

Nora Raleigh Baskin (born May 18, 1961) is an American author of books for children and young adults.[1]

Biography

Nora Baskin was born in Brooklyn, New York City[2] and is Jewish.[3] When Baskin was three, her mother committed suicide, and many of her own feelings surrounding that incident have later fueled her writing.[1] When Baskin was seven, she and her family moved to upstate New York.[4] When she was 23, she graduated from the State University of New York at Purchase.

Her books are based on her life, with Baskin feeling as though she has been writing about the same character much of her life.[5] At first, Baskin began by writing fiction for adults and had been trying to get published for around five years.[6] During a writing course Baskin took, a woman suggested she try writing for children, and Baskin changed her target audience.[6] In 1999, the story of the "sad motherless little girl" that she felt had been inside of her became part of her first published novel, What Every Girl (Except Me) Knows.[5] In her novel Surfacing, Baskin describes grief and how for even small children a family tragedy can "scab over into guilt and blame," according to Kirkus Reviews.[7]

Baskin is the winner of the Cuffie Award from Publishers Weekly for Most Promising New Author.[8] Her book The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah was a 2008 Jewish Book Council Network selection.[3] In 2010, she won the American Library Association's (ALA) Schneider Family Award for her book Anything but Typical.[9]

Baskin teaches writing and literature in a school. She also holds writers' workshops for middle school.[10] She lives in Weston, Connecticut, with her family.[11]

Books

Notes and References

  1. Q & A With Nora Raleigh Baskin. Goddu. Krystyna Poray. March 14, 2013. Publishers Weekly.
  2. Web site: Nora Raleigh Baskin: Biography. HarperCollins. https://web.archive.org/web/20100209103205/http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/Teachers/AuthorsAndIllustrators/ContributorDetail.aspx?CId=27441. February 9, 2010. dead.
  3. News: If I Had Just One Jewish Book to Read.... Kantrowitz. Anita K.. November 7, 2008. The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20151009123356/http://www.jewishjournal.com/books/article/if_i_had_just_one_jewish_book_to_read_20081107. October 9, 2015.
  4. Web site: Nora Raleigh Baskin. 2008. April 5, 2020. Walker Books.
  5. Spring 2001 Flying Starts: Nora Raleigh Baskin. Comerford. Lynda Brill. June 25, 2001. Publishers Weekly.
  6. Six Tips for Writing Young Adult Novels. Baskin. Nora Raleigh. June 2010. The Writer.
  7. Web site: Kirkus Reviews. Surfacing. December 1, 2012.
  8. The 2001 Cuffies. Publishers Weekly. January 7, 2002.
  9. Web site: Schneider Family Book Award: Winner ListAll Years. American Library Association.
  10. News: Rochester Celebrates Authors in April. Almond. Mary Beth. April 15, 2015. C&G Newspapers.
  11. Web site: Nora Raleigh Baskin: Biography . 2 April 2010 . Simon & Schuster .

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