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Cynthia Voigt |
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Cynthia Voigt |
| Cynthia Voigt was born in Boston and raised in Connecticut. She received
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education at Smith College. She says that from the age of twelve, she always wanted to be a writer. She loved to read and was fascinated by good stories and characters. She worked as a secretary and as a high school English teacher from 1965 to 1967 before beginning her writing career in 1981. About working she says, "I enjoy almost everything I do, perhaps because when I don't enjoy something, I don't do it." As far as writing, Cynthia says she begins to write by thinking of her character and then a slight plot. As she writes, “I write…because I want to write. I don't consider myself a good storyteller, and I have no burning stories to tell. I have no solutions to the problems of the world. I think there are solutions for individual people and individual circumstances. My writing is my way of saying, ‘Have you looked at it this way?’ I do it. I enjoy it." Cynthia has won many awards for her children's and young adult books. Among these awards were the Newbery Medal for Dicey's Song and, in 1990, the California Young Reader's Award for Izzy, Willy Nilly. She now lives in Deer Isle, Maine. |
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Bad Girls David and Jonathan Dicey's Song Glass Mountain Homecoming Izzy willy-nilly Jackaroo On Fortune's Wheel The Runner Seventeen Against the Dealer A Solitary Blue Sons From Afar Tree by Leaf The Wings of a Falcon |
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