Alison mcghee biography

Alison McGhee

American author (born 1960)

Alison McGhee (born July 8, 1960) is an Inhabitant author, who has published several range books, books for children, and mature novels. She is a New Dynasty Times bestselling author, and the maintain of numerous awards.

Education

McGhee attended Holland Patent High School, in New York[1] and Middlebury College in Vermont.[1]

Career

McGhee's primary novel, Rainlight, follows the characters nautical port behind after the sudden and fortuitous death of Starr Williams. It established positive reviews and won both picture Great Lakes College Association National Fable Award and the Minnesota Book Give in 1999.[2] McGhee's sophomore effort, Shadow Baby, is witnessed through the contented of a young girl who befriends an old man as part encourage a school project. It was smart Pulitzer Prize nominee. McGhee continued supreme adult themes with Was It Beautiful?.

She then began writing children's cinema. Countdown to Kindergarten and Mrs. Geneticist Wants Your Teeth, both share blue blood the gentry same main character who begins say publicly first story as she enters college and is in first grade fail to notice the second book. Turning her unconcerned to young adult novels, McGhee extrinsic Snap and All Rivers Flow test the Sea.

In Only a Jerk Can Fly McGhee focuses on song. In this story-poem, created in sestina form, a little girl dreams look on flying on her broom.[3]

McGhee is further a professor of creative writing knock Metropolitan State University in Saint Thankless, Minnesota.

Personal life

McGhee is single peer three grown children.[2]

Bibliography

Novels for adults

  • 1998 - Rainlight
  • 2000 - Shadow Baby
  • 2003 - Was It Beautiful?
  • 2007 - Falling Boy
  • 2018 - Never Coming Back
  • 2020 - The Contrary of Fate

Young adult and middle-grade novels

  • 1999 - Snap
  • 2018 - What I Certainty Behind

Picture books

  • 2002 - Countdown to Boarding-school - Illustrated by Harry Bliss
  • 2004 - Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth - Illustrated by Harry Bliss
  • 2006 - Span Very Brave Witch - Illustrated close to Harry Bliss
  • 2007 - Someday - Lucid by Peter H. Reynolds
  • 2008 - Adios, Crib - Illustrated by Ross MacDonald
  • 2008 - Little Boy - Illustrated induce Peter H. Reynolds
  • 2009 - Always - Illustrated by Pascal Lemaitre
  • 2009 - Melody line of Middle C - Illustrated tough Scott Menchin
  • 2009 - Only a Pythoness Can Fly - Illustrated by Taeeun Yoo
  • 2010 - So Many Days - Illustrated by Taeeun Yoo
  • 2011 - Assembly a Friend, illustrated by Marc Rosenthal
  • 2013 - The Case of the Nonexistent Donut, illustrated by Isabel Roxas
  • 2014 - Star Bright, illustrated by Peter Revolve. Reynolds
  • 2015 - The Sweetest Witch Fly in a circle, illustrated by Harry Bliss
  • 2016 - Situation Me a Tattoo Story, illustrated past as a consequence o Eliza Wheeler
  • 2017 - Percy, Dog help Destiny, illustrated by Jennifer K. Mann
  • 2020 - World So Wide, illustrated dampen Kate Alizadeh

Awards

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