| Alison McGhee | |
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| Occupation | Novelist, Professor |
| Period | 1985-present |
| Genres | Fiction, Young Adult, Children's Picture Books |
| Notable work(s) | Shadow Baby |
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www.alisonmcghee.com |
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Alison McGhee (Born: July 8, 1960) is an American author of books for all ages. She has published several picture books, books for children, and adult novels. She is a New York Times bestselling author, the winner of numerous awards, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her novel Shadow Baby.
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Holland Patent High School, New York[1]
Middlebury College, Vermont[1]
Alison McGhee is an eclectic writer who had published works for all ages, in many forms. Her first novel, Rainlight, is a heartrending story which follows the characters left behind after the sudden and accidental death of Starr Williams. It received positive reviews and won both the Great Lakes College Association National Fiction Award and the Minnesota Book Award in 1999.[2] McGhee's sophomore effort, Shadow Baby, is witnessed through the eyes of a young girl who befriends an old man as part of a school project. Clara Winter and Georg Kominsky are strong characters who find in each other light in a dark world. It was a Pulitzer Prize nominee. McGhee continued her adult themes with 'Was It Beautiful?.
She then began writing children's pictures. Countdown to Kindergarten and Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth, both share the same main character who begins the first story as she enters kindergarten and is in first grade by the second book.
Turning her hand to young adult novels, McGhee introduced Snap and All Rivers Flow to the Sea.
In Only a Witch Can Fly McGhee focuses on poetry. In this story-poem, created in sestina form, a little girl dreams about flying on her broom.[3]
In addition to being an award winning author, McGhee is a professor of creative writing at Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
McGhee is single with three children.[2]
? - Julia Gillian and the Dream of a Dog
2011 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award with co-author Kate DiCamillo and illustrator Tony Fucile (Bink and Gollie)[4]
2003 Minnesota Book Award (Countdown to Kindergarten)
The Great Lakes College Association National Fiction Award
1999 Minnesota Book Award (Rainlight)