Kathi Appelt (born July 6, 1954)[1] is an American author of more than forty books for children and young adults.[2] She won the annual PEN USA award for Children's Literature recognizing The Underneath (2008).[3]
Kathi Appelt | |
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 Appelt at the 2017 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | July 6, 1954 Fayetteville, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer, writing teacher |
| Alma mater | Texas A&M University |
| Period | 1990s–present |
| Genre | Children's literature, picture books, non-fiction |
| Website | |
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Biography
editKathi Appelt was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina,[1] and grew up in Houston, Texas. She graduated from Texas A&M University and lives in College Station, Texas.[4]
Appelt is the author of more than 30 books. She writes novels, picture books, poetry, and nonfiction for children and young adults.[5] Her books have been translated into several languages: Spanish, Chinese, French, and Swedish.[6] She is emerita faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program.[7]
Her first novel was The Underneath, illustrated by David Small and published by Simon & Schuster in 2008. It features a cat and dog who live mainly beneath an old house in the Louisiana–Texas bayou. For that work she received the annual Children's Literature award from PEN Center USA[3] and she was also a runner-up for the National Book Award (National Book Award for Young People's Literature finalist)[8] and the American Library Association Newbery Medal (Newbery Honor Book).[9]
Her papers are held in the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi (unprocessed manuscripts collection, 1985–2005).[10]
Selected works
edit- Someone’s Come to Our House, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter (Eerdmans, 1999)[11]
- The Alley Cat's Meow, illustrated by Jon Goodell (Harcourt, 2002)
- Poems from Homeroom: A Writer's Place to Start (Henry Holt and Co., 2002)
- The Underneath, illustrated by David Small (Simon & Schuster, 2008)
- Brand-New Baby Blues, illustrated by Kelly Murphy (HarperCollins, 2009)
- Keeper, illus. August Hall (Atheneum Books, 2010)
- The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2013)
- Maybe a Fox, illus. Alison McGee (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, 2016)
- Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky, co-authored by Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer (HarperCollins, 2001; Purple House Press 2019)
- Max Attacks, illus. Penelope Dullaghan (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2019)
- Angel Thieves (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, 2019)
References
edit- ^ a b "Kathi Appelt – Summary Bibliography". ISFDB. Retrieved 2014-09-24.
- ^ "Kathi Appelt". www.fantasticfiction.com. Retrieved 2021-01-16.
- ^ a b "2009 Lit Awards". PEN Center USA (penusa.org). Archived 2010-04-05. Retrieved 2014-09-24.
- ^ "Interview with Kathi Appelt – Pine Reads Review". Retrieved 2023-05-24.
- ^ "Interview: Children's-YA Author Kathi Appelt". Cynthia Leitich Smith. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
- ^ "Editions of The Underneath by Kathi Appelt". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
- ^ "Kathi Appelt". Vermont College of Fine Arts. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
- ^ "2008 National Book Award Finalist, Young People's Literature: Kathi Appelt". National Book Foundation. With linked interview transcript.
- ^ "Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922–Present". Association for Library Service to Children. American Library Association.
- ^ "Kathi Appelt Papers". University of Southern Mississippi Libraries.
- ^ "Someone's Come to Our House by Kathi Appelt". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2023-05-11.
External links
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- Official website
- Kathi Appelt at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Kathi Appelt at Library of Congress, with 41 library catalog records
