Franny Billingsley

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Franny Billingsley (born July 3, 1954) is the author of two award-winning children's fantasy novels, Well Wished and The Folk Keeper, as well as the novel Chime and the picture book Big Bad Bunny.

Biography

Billingsley graduated from Tufts University in 1976, and from Boston University Law School in 1979. After moving back to Chicago, she wrote for many years while working at 57th Street Books in Hyde Park until 1999. She is now a full-time author. She lives in Mexico and has two children.

Billingsley received the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship in 2003, which is awarded to an author of children's or young-adult fiction of literary merit to complete a manuscript.

Works

Well Wished (1997) OCLC 034886335
The Folk Keeper (1999) OCLC 040174939
Big Bad Bunny (2008) OCLC 074964188
Chime (2011) OCLC 535490686

Awards

1998 Anne Spencer Lindbergh Prize Honor Book for best fantasy written in the English language (Well Wished)
2000 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Fiction (The Folk Keeper)
2000 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, Children's Literature (The Folk Keeper)
2011 National Book Award for Young People's Literature finalist (Chime)

References

External links

Official website
Franny Billingsley papers at the University of Minnesota
Franny Billingsley at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Franny Billingsley at Library of Congress Authorities, with 4 catalog records

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 46028488 LCCN: n96051121 ISNI: 0000 0001 2264 3961 BNF: cb145570427

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Name	Billingsley, Franny
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Short description	American children's writer
Date of birth	July 3, 1954
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