Jeanne Birdsall

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Jeanne Birdsall (1951-[1]) is an American author awarded with the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2005 for her debut novel The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy.[2] She was raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia, and, while she decided to become a writer at age ten, she didn't start until she was 41. She worked on other jobs in between, most notably as a photographer, and some of her work has been displayed in galleries around the world. Birdsall currently lives in a house that is "old and comfortable, full of unruly animals, and surrounded by gardens" in Northampton, Massachusetts, which is coincidentally the town that Eric Carle, a more famous author and illustrator, lives.[3]

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  1. ^ Birdsall's Secret: Listening Like A Kid (English). USA Today (2005). Retrieved on 2006-09-07.
  2. ^ 2005 National Book Awards Winner Young People's Literature (English). National Book Foundation (2005). Retrieved on 2006-09-12.
  3. ^ About Jeanne (English). Jeanne Birdsall (2005). Retrieved on 2007-07-11.
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