- Popular novelist who has won the Newbery Award twice, for 'Number the Stars' (1989) and 'The Giver' (1993).
- She was born in Honolulu, Hawaii but she was raised in New York City, New York; Carlisle, Pennsylvania; Tokyo, Japan; and Washington D.C.
- She was the middle child of an United States Army Dentist with an older sister, Helen, and younger brother, Jon.
- She has three grandsons including one named,Rhys, and a granddaughter.
- During her marriage, she lived in California, Connecticut (her daughter was born there), Florida (a son was born there), South Carolina; Cambridge, Massachuetts; and Maine.
- She attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode, Island as a undergraduate student and earned her graduate degree from the University of Southern Maine.
- She lost her son, Grey, (an F-15 pilot) in the United States Air Force, in a plane crash in Germany.
- She splits her time between homes in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Maine. (May 2008)
- Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 131, pages 266-273. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
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