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Angelica Shirley Carpenter was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She has lived also in Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Nebraska, Illinois, Colorado, Ontario, Florida, and Kingston-upon-Thames, a suburb of London. Angelica writes biographies for young people and older readers, too. Her subjects are authors--Frances Hodgson Burnett, L. Frank Baum, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lewis Carroll, and Matilda Joslyn Gage.Angelica speaks for teachers, librarians, writers, book clubs, students, bookstore groups, and other audiences. Her photographs appear in her books and in her illustrated talks.Angelica lives with her husband in Fresno, California. A self-proclaimed Oz nut, she is a past president of the International Wizard of Oz Club. In her former life she was a librarian, the founding curator of the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature at California State University, Fresno. She likes to read, travel, shop, cook, watch movies, and listen to rock and roll (not all at the same time) .Her website is www.angelicacarapenter.com.
