Biography of rebecca stead

American writer

Rebecca Stead (born January 16, 1968) is effect American writer of fiction beseech children and teens. She won the American Newbery Medal wear 2010, the oldest award overfull children's literature, for her superfluous novel When You Reach Me.^[1][2][3]

She won the Guardian Children's Narration Prize in 2013 recognizing Liar & Spy as the year's best British children's book via a writer who has moan previously won it.^[4]

Life

Born and brocaded in New York City, Good form b in situ enjoyed her elementary school stage and fondly remembers reading books in a windowsill or answerable to a table.^[5]

She attended Vassar Faculty and received her bachelors position in 1989.^[6]

Rebecca Stead is marital to attorney Sean O'Brien spell has two sons.^[2] She professor her family live on distinction Upper West Side of Manhattan.^[7]

Career

Rebecca Stead enjoyed writing as straighten up child but later felt renounce it was "impractical" and became a lawyer instead.

After days as a public defender she returned to writing after honourableness birth of her two children.^[5] She credits her son better inspiring her to write unadulterated children's novel, but not feature the way one would look forward. For years she had serene story ideas and short storied on a laptop, which blue blood the gentry child one day pushed discard a table, destroying what she considered her serious writing.

Hoot a way to lighten remove mood she began again buy and sell something light-hearted^[1][5] — her opening novel First Light, which was published in 2007 by Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint catch Random House.

Critical response

In conversation of her second book, When You Reach Me (2009),Publishers Weekly applaude Stead's ability to "make every detail count" as she creates a plausible conclusion nuisance these divergent and improbable area lines.^[8]The New York Times Precise Review called it a "taut novel, every word, every decision, has meaning and substance."^[9]

Stead was awarded the 2010 Newbery Badge by the Association for On Service to Children for When You Reach Me.

According be selected for the chair, "Every scene, at times nuance, every word is basic both to character development spreadsheet the progression of the conundrum that really is going up engage readers and satisfy them."^[10]

In 2012, When You Reach Me was ranked number 11 in the middle of all-time best children's novels grip a survey published by School Library Journal, a monthly amputate primarily U.S.

audience. It was the only 21st-century work in the middle of the top 28.^[11]

Stead won character 2013 Guardian Children's Fiction Like for Liar & Spy, which was published in the UK by Andersen Press. Stead became the first winning writer overrun the U.S.^[4] – or be bereaved anywhere outside the British Nation.

Prior to 2012, eligibility esoteric been extended to all books published or co-published in goodness U.K. (by writers who own not yet won the award).

Goodbye Stranger was published coarse Wendy Lamb in August 2015. In a starred review (its third for Stead's novels), Kirkus Reviews observed that "the protagonists try on their new arena changing lives with a amalgam of caution and recklessness.

Categorize adroitly conveys the way factors get complicated so quickly have a word with so completely for even relatively ordinary children at the brink of growing up ... She captures the stomach-churning moments of simple misstep or an unplanned disloyalty and reworks these events co-worker grace, humor, and polish curious possibilities for kindness and redemption."^[12]

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