The Animal, the Vegetable, and John D Jones (eBook / ePub)

Autoren-Porträt von Betsy Byars

<DIV>Betsy Byars (b. 1928) is an award-winning American author of more than fifty children&rsquo;s and young adult titles, including <i>The Summer of the Swans</i> (1970), which earned her the Newbery Medal. She has also received a National Book Award for <i>The Night Swimmers</i> (1980) and an Edgar Award for <i>Wanted . . . Mud Blossom</i> (1991). Byars began writing in college and submitted stories to magazines while raising four children. Her first novel, <i>Clementine</i>, was published in 1962, and in the decades since, she became one of America&rsquo;s best-loved authors for young readers, with popular series including Bingo Brown and the Blossom Family stories. Byars and her husband, Ed, are both licensed aircraft pilots and live above their own private hangar on an airstrip in Seneca, South Carolina.&#160;</div>

Pressezitat

“Sharply cast . . .” —Kirkus Reviews “Mrs. Byars [is] wise to the ways of fear of loss, adolescent snobbery and conformism . . .” —The New York Times