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Short Bio:

Susan Lynn Meyer is the author of three middle-grade novels—A Sky Full of Song, Black Radishes, and Skating with the Statue of Liberty—as well as four picture books. Her works have won the Western Writers of America Spur Award, the Will Rogers Gold Medallion Award, the Sydney Taylor Honor Award (twice), the Jane Addams Peace Association Children’s Book Award, and the New York State Charlotte Award, as well as many others. Her books have been chosen as Junior Library Guild selections, included among Bank Street College of Education’s Best Children’s Books of the Year, and translated into German and Chinese. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Wellesley College and lives outside Boston.

Susan loves to read about the past. Her most recent novel, A Sky Full of Song, was inspired by an old family photograph of a baby in a buggy front of a dugout, much research into the history of Jewish homesteaders in the Dakotas, and an awe-struck response to the sky over the Great Plains.

Education and Current Position:

Susan Lynn Meyer grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. She has a B.A. in English Literature from Johns Hopkins University, an M.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles, and an M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. in English from Yale University.  She now lives outside Boston and works as Professor of English and Creative Writing at Wellesley College.

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