Heidi didn't want to be a writer when she grew up. In fact, after she graduated from college, she became a probation officer in Florida. It wasn't until she was 28 years old that she gave in and joined the family business, publishing her first short story in a book called Famous Writers and Their Kids Write Spooky Stories. The famous writer was her mom, author Jane Yolen. Since then, she has published 20 books and numerous short stories and poems, mostly for children. Heidi lives and writes in Massachusetts on a big old farm with two houses.
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Vaunda Micheaux NelsonVaunda Micheaux Nelson credits her love of books to her late parents, who faithfully read to her every night. Through her work she hopes to give young people some of what her parents gave her -- opportunities to grow through story. Her latest book, Dream March: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the March on Washington. A Random House Step-Into-Reading History Reader, Dream March is scheduled for release in December of 1917. Vaunda's young adult book, No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller won the 2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for fiction,...
Heidi E. Y. Stemple
Heidi didn't want to be a writer when she grew up. In fact, after she graduated from college, she became a probation officer in Florida. It wasn't until she was 28 years old that she gave in and joined the family business, publishing her first short story in a book called Famous Writers and Their Kids Write Spooky Stories. The famous writer was her mom, author Jane Yolen. Since then, she has published 20 books and numerous short stories and poems, mostly for children. Heidi lives and writes in Massachusetts on a big old farm with two houses.
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Vaunda Micheaux NelsonVaunda Micheaux Nelson credits her love of books to her late parents, who faithfully read to her every night. Through her work she hopes to give young people some of what her parents gave her -- opportunities to grow through story. Her latest book, Dream March: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the March on Washington. A Random House Step-Into-Reading History Reader, Dream March is scheduled for release in December of 1917. Vaunda's young adult book, No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller won the 2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for fiction,...