Lasky, Kathryn

Kathryn Lasky,
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Name	Lasky, Kathryn Gender: F
Birthname	Kathryn Roberta Lasky
born on	24 June 1944 at 09:54 (= 09:54 AM )
Place	Indianapolis, Indiana, 39n46, 86w09
Timezone	CWT h5w (is war time)
Data source	BC/BR in hand Rodden Rating AA Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	02°56' 18°00 Asc. 28°07'

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Biography

American children's writer who also writes for adults under the names Kathryn Lasky Knight and E. L. Swann. Her children's books include several Dear America books, The Royal Diaries books, Sugaring Time, The Night Journey, Wolves of the Beyond, and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series (more than 8 millions copies printed). Her awards include Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature, National Jewish Book Award, and Newbery Honor.

Her adult nonfiction work includes the 2011 book, Silk and Venom: Searching for a Dangerous Spider, a biography of the arachnologist Greta Binford, and the 2017 bestseller Night Witches, the story of Soviet women pilots of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment in World War II.

She received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Michigan and a master's degree in early childhood education from Wheelock College.

Lasky is Jewish and of Russian descent. She is married to Christopher Knight, with whom she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Deer Isle, Maine.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Source Notes

Birth certificate in hand from Sy Scholfield, copy on file.

Categories

• Traits : Body : Race (Jewish and of Russian descent)

• Traits : Mind : Education extensive (BA, MA)

• Personal : Misc. : Changed name (Pen names)

• Vocation : Writers : Biographer (Greta Binford)

• Vocation : Writers : Children's literature

• Vocation : Writers : Fiction

• Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction

• Notable : Awards : Vocational award (Literary)