Patricia McCormick (1) (1956–)
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Patricia McCormick, a two-time National Book Award finalist, is the author of five critically acclaimed novels: Never Fall Down, a novel based on the true story of an 11-year-old boy who survived the Killing Fields of Cambodia by playing music; Purple Heart, a suspenseful psychological novel that mostrar más explores the killing of a 10-year-old boy in Iraq; Sold, a deeply moving account of sexual trafficking; My Brother's Keeper, a realistic view of teenage substance abuse; and Cut, an intimate portrait of one girl's struggle with self-injury. McCormick grew up in central Pennsylvania. She worked as an assistant press secretary to the Governor of Pennsylvania from 1974-78, then went to the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. McCormick studied fiction writing at The New School in New York City. Never Fall Down was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2012 and was named a New York Times Notable Book for 2012. It was also named a Best Book of the Year by iTunes, The Huffington Post, School Library Journal and the Chicago Public Library. McCormick was named a New York Foundation on the Arts fellow in 2004 and a MacDowell fellow in 2009. She is also the winner of the 2009 German Peace Prize for Youth Literature. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1956-05-23
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- New York, New York, USA
- Educación
- Rosemont College
Columbia University
New School - Ocupaciones
- journalist
author
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Found: YA book may have been published in early 2000s en Name that Book (marzo 2022)
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- #2,384
- Valoración
- 3.9
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- 447
- ISBNs
- 161
- Idiomas
- 11
Lakshmi, think you will have an honest job, to help support the family, but never imagined that her stepfather sold for personal purpose, and she ended up in a house with many women who prostitute themselves to pay for accommodation and what we owe to the matchmaker.… (más)