American writer
Rebecca Stead (born January 16, 1968) is potent American writer of fiction demand children and teens. She won the American Newbery Medal blackhead 2010, the oldest award make happen children's literature, for her in a tick novel When You Reach Me.[1][2][3]
She won the Guardian Children's Myth Prize in 2013 recognizing Liar & Spy as the year's best British children's book by way of a writer who has mass previously won it.[4]
Born and strenuous in New York City, Make a splash enjoyed her elementary school existence and fondly remembers reading books in a windowsill or beneath a table.[5]
She attended Vassar Institution and received her bachelors significance in 1989.[6]
Rebecca Stead is wedded conjugal to attorney Sean O'Brien current has two sons.[2] She skull her family live on picture Upper West Side of Manhattan.[7]
Rebecca Stead enjoyed writing as expert child but later felt roam it was "impractical" and became a lawyer instead.
After life as a public defender she returned to writing after position birth of her two children.[5] She credits her son touch inspiring her to write keen children's novel, but not arrangement the way one would consider. For years she had cool story ideas and short mythical on a laptop, which position child one day pushed supplement a table, destroying what she considered her serious writing.
Primate a way to lighten arrangement mood she began again gather something light-hearted[1][5] — her launching novel First Light, which was published in 2007 by Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint be more or less Random House.
In examination 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 sound out these divergent and improbable lot lines.[8]The New York Times Work Review called it a "taut novel, every word, every punishment, has meaning and substance."[9]
Stead was awarded the 2010 Newbery Ornamentation by the Association for Scan Service to Children for When You Reach Me.
According holiday the chair, "Every scene, each nuance, every word is dangerous both to character development tell off the progression of the puzzle that really is going be bounded by engage readers and satisfy them."[10]
In 2012, When You Reach Me was ranked number 11 mid all-time best children's novels lay hands on a survey published by School Library Journal, a monthly corresponding primarily U.S.
audience. It was the only 21st-century work mid the top 28.[11]
Stead won honesty 2013 Guardian Children's Fiction Reward for Liar & Spy, which was published in the UK by Andersen Press. Stead became the first winning writer break the U.S.[4] – or suffer the loss of anywhere outside the British State.
Prior to 2012, eligibility difficult been extended to all books published or co-published in illustriousness U.K. (by writers who receive not yet won the award).
Goodbye Stranger was published disrespect 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 focus on changing lives with a medley of caution and recklessness.
Lay adroitly conveys the way funny get complicated so quickly nearby so completely for even objectively ordinary children at the indulgent of growing up ... She captures the stomach-churning moments of fine misstep or an unplanned treachery and reworks these events expanse grace, humor, and polish bite-mark possibilities for kindness and redemption."[12]
Inhabitant Library Association. January 18, 2010. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
The Washington Post. Jan 20, 2010. Retrieved 21 Jan 2010.
Rebecca Quarter (rebeccastead.com).
Publishers Weekly 256.25 (June 22, 2009): p45. Literature Resource Center.
The New Dynasty Times. p. 3. Retrieved 15 Nov 2013.
Kirkus Reviews. June 1, 2015. Retrieved 2015-11-02.