Kathryn Erskine is an American writer of children's literature. She won the 2010 National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the 2012 Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award for her novel, Mockingbird.
Life Erskine's family traveled widely during her childhood due to her father's career. She was born in the Netherlands and has lived in South Africa, Israel, Canada, and Scotland. Erskine now lives in Virginia with her husband, Bill. She has two children, Fiona and Gavin. She also has a dog named Maxine.
She was a lawyer for many years before writing. She presents workshops at the Writer's Center."Kathryn Erskine" . The Writers Center.
Bibliography Quaking, Penguin, 2007, Mockingbird, Penguin, 2010, — winner of the National Book Award"National Book Awards – 2010". National Book Foundation (NBF). Retrieved 2012-04-16. (With acceptance speech by Erskine; interview, reading, and other material replicated for all five Young People's Literature authors and books.)"2010 National Book Award Winner, Young People's Literature" (November 17, 2010). NBF. Retrieved 2011-10-28. (Acceptance speech by Erskine with some other material.)
Seeing Red, Scholastic, 2013, Mama Africa!: How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), The Badger Knight, Scholastic, 2014, ISBN 978-0-54546442-0
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"Q & A with Kathryn Erskine", Publishers Weekly, Sue Corbett, April 8, 2010