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Kirby Larson Bio, Website, Interviews and Blog
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Big Sky website Kirby Larson went from history-phobe to history fanatic thanks to a snippet of a story about her great-grandmother homesteading in eastern Montana. That bit of family lore inspired her to write HATTIE BIG SKY, a young adult historical novel, which is a 2007 Newbery Honor Award and Montana Book Award winner, as well as a Junior Library Guild selection, a Borders Original Voices title, a Barnes & Noble Teen Discover title, a School Library Journal Best Book and a Book Links Lasting Connections, in addition to being nominated for several state reading/Children’s Choice awards. A non-fiction picture book, TWO BOBBIES: A TRUE TALE OF HURRICANE KATRINA, FRIENDSHIP AND SURVIVAL (Walker), co-authored with Mary Nethery and illustrated by Jean Cassels, is due out in August 2008. She is recently retired from the faculty of the Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA program and is a frequent presenter at writing conferences. Kirby Larson website: http://www.kirbylarson.com Kirby Larson blog: http://www.kirbylarson.com/blog/ Kirby Larson author bio: http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/pdf/AuthorBioKirbyLarson.pdf Mother Daughter Bookclub interview: http://motherdaughterbookclub.com/interviews.html#Kirby%20Larson Live Journal interview: http://slayground.livejournal.com/160972.html Montana Public Radio interview: http://kirbylarson.podomatic.com/
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