Han Nolan

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Han Nolan (born August 25, 1956) is an American writer of young-adult fiction. She has published eight young adult novels. She won the U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 1997 for the novel Dancing on the Edge; among others she thanked "critique groups both in Connecticut and Alabama".^[1]

Nolan was born in Birmingham, Alabama and grew up in New York City. She has been fascinated with stories since early childhood. Even as a little girl she would spin yarns for her friends. She did not always want to be a writer. For many years she focused her energies on becoming a dancer. After trying to maintain her sanity on a dancer's schedule for years, she went back to her first identity, that of a storyteller. Many of her novels feature a main character struggling to make it in an adult world.

Bibliography

If I Should Die Before I Wake (1994)
Send Me Down A Miracle (1996)
Dancing on the Edge (1997)
A Face in Every Window (1999)
Born Blue (2001)
When We Were Saints (2003)
Crazy (2010)
Pregnant Pause (2011)

References

↑ "National Book Awards – 1997". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-01-26.
(With acceptance speech by Nolan.)

External links

Official website
Han Nolan at Answers.com
Han Nolan at Library of Congress Authorities, with 12 catalog records

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 50319611 LCCN: n93069828 ISNI: 0000 0000 6323 3582 BNF: cb14491063d

Persondata
Name	Nolan, Han
Alternative names
Short description	American children's writer
Date of birth	1956-08-25
Place of birth	Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Date of death
Place of death

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